Elevation
זְבֻלStrong’s H2073zevul (ze-vul)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zevul is the Hebrew word usually translated “loftiness”, “from lofty abode” and “from lofty abode of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.”
Meaning
- Exalted, residence, elevation, lofty abode, height, habitation
How it's translated
- loftiness 2
- from lofty abode 1
- from lofty abode of 1
- a lofty abode 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Habakkuk 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 6:2But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
- Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
- Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
- Habakkuk 3:11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Hebrew dictionary
זְבֻל zevul · elevation
exalted, residence, elevation, lofty abode, height, habitation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “elevation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ELEVA'TION, noun
[Latin elevatio.]
The act of raising or conveying from a lower or deeper place to a higher.
- The act of exalting in rank, degree or condition; as the elevation of a man to a throne.
- Exaltation; an elevated state; dignity.
- Exaltation of mind by more noble conceptions; as elevation of mind, of thoughts, of ideas.
- Exaltation of style; lofty expressions; words and phrases expressive of lofty conceptions.
All definitions
- Exaltation of character or manners.
- Attention to objects above us; a raising of the mind to superior objects.
- An elevated place or station.
- Elevated ground; a rising ground; a hill or mountain.
- A passing of the voice from any note to one more acute; also, a swelling or augmentation of voice.
- In astronomy, altitude; the distance of a heavenly body above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon.
- In gunnery, the angle which the chace of a cannon or mortar, or the axis of the hollow cylinder, makes with the plane of the horizon.
- In dialling, the angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.