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Elevation

נוֹףStrong’s H5131

noph

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Noph is the Hebrew word usually translated “height”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.”
Psalms 48:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. Elevation, height
How it's translated
  • height 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    נוֹף noph · elevation

    elevation, height

    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.

    1. The act of exalting in rank, degree or condition; as the elevation of a man to a throne.
    2. Exaltation; an elevated state; dignity.
    3. Exaltation of mind by more noble conceptions; as elevation of mind, of thoughts, of ideas.
    4. Exaltation of style; lofty expressions; words and phrases expressive of lofty conceptions.
    All definitions
    1. Exaltation of character or manners.
    2. Attention to objects above us; a raising of the mind to superior objects.
    3. An elevated place or station.
    4. Elevated ground; a rising ground; a hill or mountain.
    5. A passing of the voice from any note to one more acute; also, a swelling or augmentation of voice.
    6. 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.
    7. 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.
    8. 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.