Upper
עִלִּיStrong’s H5942illi (il-li)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Illi is the Hebrew word usually translated “upper”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.”
Meaning
- Upper
How it's translated
- upper 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
עִלִּי illi · upper
upper
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “upper” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
UP'PER, adjective
[comparative from up.]
- Higher in place; as the upper lip; the upper side of a thing.
- Superior in rank or dignity; as the upper house of a legislature.
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.