37 occurrences

'Upper' in the Bible

And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

Verse ConceptsCovering The MouthPurity, Nature OfVeilsQuarantiningCovering HeadsFacial Hair

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

And she said, Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus : the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;

Verse ConceptsBorders Around Tribal Areas

And she said unto him, Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

Verse ConceptsHousesThe Cool Of The DayPeople Getting Up

Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room upon him, and locked them.

Verse ConceptsPorchesShutting DoorsLocks And Bars

Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.

Verse ConceptsDefecation

And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he opened not the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened them , and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

Verse ConceptsKeys

And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and brake his skull.

Verse ConceptsBeing Killed By A RockSkullscrushes

who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

Verse ConceptsMillstonesBeing Killed By A RockKilling Named Individuals

And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesBeelzebubHealingHousesSuffering, Causes OfPeople Falling From A HeightUpper Rooms

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleGateways Of The TempleIncense Offered Amiss

And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

Verse ConceptsCommanderLargenessOccupationsSiegesActual Attacks On JerusalemWater ChannelLarge Armies

And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

Verse ConceptsRoofValleysBuilding AltarsUpper RoomsCourts Of The Temple

And his daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth-horon the nether and the upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.

Verse ConceptsBuilders

Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch of the temple , and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper rooms thereof, and of the inner chambers thereof, and of the place of the mercy-seat;

Verse ConceptsPorchesBlueprintsStores Of Food

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

Verse Conceptsweight

Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

Verse ConceptsFortificationsGates

And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Jehovah: and they came through the upper gate unto the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

Verse ConceptsNoblesRulersThroneNamed Gates

He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

Verse ConceptsWallsBuilding Jerusalem's WallGates Of The Temple

This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

Verse ConceptsWater Irrigation

Palal the son of Uzai repaired over against the turning of the wall , and the tower that standeth out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh repaired .

Verse ConceptsThe Angle

Then said Jehovah unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field;

Verse ConceptsOccupationsProphets, Lives OfPoolsMeeting PeopleClean ClothesWater ChannelHighways

And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

Verse ConceptsCommanderOccupationsPoolsClean ClothesWater Channel

Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsFloggingGatesNamed Gates

Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Jehovah's house, in the ears of all the people.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardSecretaryNamed GatesReading The Scriptures

And behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lieth toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. And they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.

Verse ConceptsSix PeopleComing To GatesFacing NorthWriting On ObjectsWeapons Of GodSetting Up The Bronze AltarDeath Penalty For Killing

Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

Verse ConceptsNarrownessNarrow Things

And the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

Verse ConceptsHornsFour Horns

And he will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready: and there make ready for us.

Verse ConceptsPreparing For ActionUpper Rooms

And he will show you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.

Verse ConceptsA Place PreparedThings ManifestUpper RoomsGuest Roomsspacezealots

And when they were come in, they went up into the upper chamber, where they were abiding; both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysZealAndrewPrayer MeetingsUpper RoomsGuest Roomszealots

And it came to pass in those days, that she fell sick, and died: and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper chamber.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadBurials, FeaturesStairwaysDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfCorpses Of Other PeopleUpper Rooms

And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

Verse ConceptsClothBereavement, Experience OfStairwaysDressMournersWidowsClothing The NeedyOuter GarmentsInner GarmentsActual WidowsUpper RoomsMourning The Death Of Otherssisterhood

And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples:

Verse ConceptsFindingRoadsflexibility

And there were many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered together.

Verse ConceptsLampsStairwaysUpper Rooms

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Definition
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ὑπερῷον 
Huperoon 
Usage: 4

משׁקוף 
Mashqowph 
Usage: 3

עלּי 
`illiy 
Usage: 2

עליון 
'elyown 
Usage: 53

שׂפם 
Sapham 
Usage: 5

ἀνώγεον 
Anogeon 
Usage: 0

ἀνωτερικός 
Anoterikos 
Usage: 1

πρωτοκαθεδρία 
Protokathedria 
Usage: 0

πρωτοκλισία 
Protoklisia 
Usage: 1

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