Above
מַ֫עַלStrong’s H4605maal (ma-al)
Appears in 134 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maal is the Hebrew word usually translated “up -wards”, “upwards” and “from to above”. It appears in 134 verses of the Old Testament.
“And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?”
Meaning
- Higher part, upper partabove · on the top of, above, on higher ground than · upwards, higher, above
How it's translated
- and up -wards 49
- upwards 28
- from to above 23
- from above 14
- above 13
- and upwards 6
- up -wards 2
- and on -wards 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 37
- Exodus 13
- 2 Chronicles 11
- Ezekiel 10
- 1 Kings 8
- 1 Chronicles 8
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 12:7In contextAnd I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
- Genesis 6:16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
- Genesis 7:20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
- Genesis 22:9And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
- Exodus 20:4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Exodus 25:20And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
All 134 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מַ֫עַל maal · above
subst 1) higher part, upper part adv 1a) above prep 1b) on the top of, above, on higher ground than with locative 1c) upwards, higher, above
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “above” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ABOVE', adverb
- Overhead; in a higher place.
- Before.
- Chief in rank or power. Deuteronomy 28:1
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.