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H4605

H4605 — מַעַל

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewma`aladjectiveOccurrences: 140TWOT: 1624k

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H4605
Word:מַעַל
Part of Speech:adjective
Etymology:from H5927
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:140
Transliteration:ma`al
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:mah'al
Meaning:1. (properly) the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc
KJV Renderings:above, exceeding(-ly), forward, on (X very) high, over, up(-on, -ward), very.

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מַ֫עַל140 substantive, higher part, only in adverb and preposition phrases, above, upwards (Phoenician מעל, see below מַ֫טּה p. 641: abbreviated from מַעֲלֶה; compare מַ֫עַן in לְמַ֫עַן from ׃עָנָה Köii. 116): —

1. מִמַּ֫עַל = above (see מִן 1.c.)
a. as adverb Amos 2:9 וָאַשְׁמִיד פִּרְיוֺ מִמֵּעַל his fruit above (opposed to שָׁרָשָׁיו מִתָּ֑חַת), Job 18:16; 1Kgs 7:3; 1Kgs 7:20; 1Kgs 7:29 often in the phrase הַשָּׁמַמַיִם מִמַּעַל Deut 4:39; Deut 5:8 ( = Exod 20:4), Josh 2:11; 1Kgs 8:23 ; Isa 45:8 ; Jer 4:28 compare ׳ שְׁחָקִים מ Ps 78:23 ; Prov 8:28, ׳ אֱלוֺהַּ מ Job 3:4; Job 31:2, ׳ אֵל מ Job 31:28 .
b. מִמַּעַל לְ, as preposition (מן 1.c.), on the top of, above, Gen 22:9 ממעל לָעֵצִים above the wood, Exod 28:27 = Exod 39:20, Lev 11:21 כְּרָעַיִם מִמַּעַל לְרַגְלָיו, Isa 6:2 שְׁרָפִים עֹמדים מִמַּעַל לוֺ, Isa 14:13; Jer 43:10; Ezek 1:26; Dan 12:6 ; Dan 12:7 = on higher ground than , Jer 35:4 figurative Jer 52:32 (|| 2Kgs 25:28 מֵעַל).
2. With ָ  ה locative מַ֫עְלָה, מָ֑עְלָה upwards (opposed to מַ֫טָּה p. 641) :
a. figurative Deut 28:43 יַעֲלֶה עֶלֶיךָ מַ֫עְלָה מָ֫עְלָה upwards, upwards, i.e. higher and higher (opposed to מַ֫טָּה מָֽטָה).
b. וָמַ֫עְלָה (a) of direction in space, Judg 1:36 מֵהַסֶּלַע וָמַ֫עְלָה from the rock and upwards (compare Bu), 1Kgs 7:31 (corrupt: see Sta VB Benz), 1Sam 9:2 = 1Sam 10:23 מִשִּׁכְמוֺ וָמַ֫עְלָה from his shoulder and upwards: so ׳ וּלְמ, Ezek 1:27 מִמַּרְאֵה מָתְנָיו וּלְמָ֑עְלָה Ezek 8:2; Ezek 43:5. ( b) of direction in time, or age: — (α) מִבֶּן עֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה וָמָ֑עְלָה Exod 30:14; Num 1:3 + 19 t. P , ׳ מִבֶּן חֹדֶשׁ חֹדֶשׁ וָמ Num 3:15; Num 3:22 + 6 t. P , simil. Num 4:3 ; Num 8:24 + 7 t. P ; elsewhere only 1Chr 23:3; 1Chr 23:24; Ezra 3:8, and with וּלְמַעְלָה 1Chr 23:17 ; 2Chr 31:16 ; 2Chr 31:17 ׳ לְמִבֶּן ֗֗֗ וָמ 2Chr 25:5 and 2Kgs 3:21 מִכֹּל חֹגֵר חֲגֹרָה ׳ וָמ. (β) ׳ מהיום ההוא וָמ from that day and onwards, 1Sam 16:13; 1Sam 30:25. (γ) ׳ מן היום הזִה וָמ from this day and upwards (i.e. and back ), Hag 2:15 ; Hag 2:18
and onwards (as β) is more probably: see Now WeKl. Proph. ed. 8 {1898} Marti Dr.
c. לְמַ֫עְלָךְ upwards, more common than ׳ מ alone (a): (α) Exod 25:20 (= Exod 37:9) ֹ˜פּרְשֵׂי ׳ כְנָפַיִם למ Judg 7:13 ׳ ויהפכחו למ overthrew it upwards, i.e. turned it downside up, Isa 7:11 ׳ אוֺ הַגְבֵּהַּ למ or make it (the request) high upwards, Isa 8:21 ׳ וּפָנָה למ, Isa 37:31 (2Kgs 19:30) ועשׂה פרי ׳ למ (compare Amos 2:9, 1.a.), Ezek 41:7 a β (v:a α bis ׳ למ ׳ למ = higher and higher), Ps 74:5 figurative ׳ וְהָיִיתָ רַק למ Deut 28:13 (comparea), Prov 15:24 ׳ אֹרַח חַיִּים למ (opposed to שְׁאוֺל מָֽטָּה ׃), compare Eccl 3:21 followed by a noun, Ezra 9:6 רּאשׁ ׳ למ over the head, followed by מֵעַל (compare Aboth Ezra 2:1 לְמַעְלָה מִן) = above, 2Chr 34:4: see also b a, b a. (b) metaphor = exceedingly, only in Chronicles: 1Chr 14:2; 1Chr 22:5 the house must be built to J. ׳ לְהַגְדִּיל למ so as to shew greatness exceedingly, 1Chr 23:17 ׳ רָבוּ למ ׳ וּבְנֵי ר, 1Chr 29:3 (followed by מִ ן; = over and above …), 1Chr 29:25; 2Chr 1:1 ׳ וַיְגַדְּלֵהוּ למ, 2Chr 20:19 עַד לְמַ֫עְלָה, 2Chr 16:12; 2Chr 17:12; 2Chr 26:8.
d. מִלְמַ֫עְלָה (see מִן 9.a.), adverb, above (the more usual prose synonym of מִמַּעַל): Gen 6:16 אֶלאַֿמָּה תְּכַלֶּנָּה ׳ מ Gen 7:20 15 cubits ׳ מ (i.e. above the mountain-tops), Exod 25:21 (Exod 40:20) ׳ וְנָתַתָּ֫ה אֶתהַֿכַּפֹּרֶת על הארון מ upon the ark above, Exod 26:14 ( Exod 36:19; Exod 40:19; Num 4:25 ) a covering of skins on the tent ׳ מ above, Num 39:31; Num 4:6 ; 1Kgs 7:11; 1Kgs 7:25; 1Kgs 8:7 (2Chr 4:4 ; 2Chr 5:8), Jer 31:37 ׳ אִם יִמַּדּוּ שָׁמַיִם מ (compare 1.a.), Ezek 1:11 ׳ פְּרֻדוֺת מ separate above, Ezek 1:22 Ezek 1:26; Ezek 10:19 ; Ezek 11:22 ; Ezek 37:8 from above, Josh 3:13; Josh 3:16 ׳ הַמַּיִם הַיֹּרְדִים מ.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מעל (mah’-gal)

Genesis 6:16

KJV: A 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.
EHCC: in a cubit shalt thou finish it above?;

Genesis 7:90

EHCC: Fifteen cubits upward? did the waters

Genesis 22:9

KJV: And 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.
EHCC: 0n the altar spon’ the wood.

Exodus 20:4

KJV: Thou 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:
EHCC: (of any thing) that (is) in heaven above’,

Exodus 25:20

KJV: And 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.
EHCC: stretch forth lanetr) wings on high',

Exodus 26:14

KJV: And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
EHCC: a covering above? (of) badgers’ skins.

Exodus 28:27

KJV: And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
EHCC: above? the curious girdle of the ephod,

Exodus 90:14

EHCC: from twenty years old and above,

Exodus 36:19

KJV: And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
EHCC: covering (of') badgers’ skins above®

Exodus 87:9

EHCC: spread out (their) wings o high?,

Exodus 38:26

KJV: A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.every man: Heb. a poll
EHCC: from twenty years old and upward,

Exodus 39:20

KJV: And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
EHCC: above? the curious girdle of the

Leviticus 11:21

KJV: Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
EHCC: which have legs above? their feet,

Leviticus 27:7

KJV: And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
EHCC: from sixty years old and above;

Numbers 1:8

KJV: Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
EHCC: 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40,

Numbers 3:15

KJV: Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
EHCC: 22, 28, 34, 39, 40, 43. from a month old and

Numbers 4:3

KJV: From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
EHCC: 23, 30, 35, 39, 43, 47. From thirty years old

Numbers 8:24

KJV: This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:to…: Heb. to war the warfare of, etc
EHCC: from twenty and five years old and upwura

Numbers 14:29

KJV: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
EHCC: & 26:2, 4.twenty years old and upward,

Numbers 26:62

KJV: And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
EHCC: from a month old and upward:

Numbers 32:11

KJV: Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:wholly…: Heb. fulfilled after me
EHCC: from. twenty years old and upward,

Deuteronomy 4:39

KJV: Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
EHCC: he (is) God in heaven above’,

Deuteronomy 23:13

KJV: And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:wilt…: Heb. sittest down
EHCC: thou shalt be above! only,

Joshua 2:11

KJV: And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.did there…: Heb. rose up
EHCC: he )15( God in heaven above,

Joshua 3:13

KJV: And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
EHCC: waters that come down from abure?;

Joshua 3:16

KJV: That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
EHCC: waters which came down from above?

Judges 1:36

KJV: And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.the going…: or, Maaleh–acrabbim
EHCC: from the rock, and upward.

Judges 7:13

KJV: And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
EHCC: and overturned it, (lit, overturned it

Judges 184:9

EHCC: 2. from his shoulders and upward ,

Judges 10:23

EHCC: from his shouldera and upward.

Judges 16:18

KJV: And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
EHCC: upon David from that day forward.

Judges 30:25

EHCC: from thatday. forward, (marg. und forward)

Judges 8:7

KJV: And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.tear: Heb. thresh
EHCC: and the staves thereof %

2 Kings 3:21

KJV: And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.gathered: Heb. were cried togetherput on…: Heb. gird himself with a girdle
EHCC: able to put on armour, aud upward,

2 Kings 19:30

KJV: And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.remnant…: Heb. escaping of the house of Judah that remaineth
EHCC: and bear fruit upward'.

1 Chronicles 14:2

KJV: And David perceived that the Lord had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel.
EHCC: his kingdom was lifted up on high',

1 Chronicles 23:3

KJV: Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
EHCC: from the oge of thirty years and upward:

1 Chronicles 29:3

KJV: Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
EHCC: over! and above all that 1 have

2 Chronicles 1:1

KJV: And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
EHCC: and magnified him exceedingly '.

2 Chronicles 4:4

KJV: It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
EHCC: the sea (was set) above? upon them,

2 Chronicles 5:8

KJV: For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
EHCC: the ey thereof abuve®.

2 Chronicles 16:12

KJV: And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.
EHCC: until his disease (was) exceeding! t):

2 Chronicles 20:19

KJV: And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high.
EHCC: with a loud voice on .קו

2 Chronicles 25:5

KJV: Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
EHCC: from twenty years old and above,

2 Chronicles 31:16

KJV: Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the Lord, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
EHCC: from three years old and upward',

2 Chronicles 34:4

KJV: And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.the images: or, the sun imagesgraves: Heb. face of the graves
EHCC: the images, that (were) on high!

Ezra 3:8

KJV: Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord.
EHCC: from twenty years old and upward, 0

Ezra 9:6

KJV: And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.trespass: or, guiltiness
EHCC: iniquities are increased over! (our) head,

Job 3:4

KJV: Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
EHCC: Jet not God regerd it from above®,

Job 18:16

KJV: His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
EHCC: and above ? shall his branch be cut off.

Job 81:2

EHCC: what portion of God (is there) from above 2?

Psalms 74:5

KJV: A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
EHCC: according es he had lifted up! (lit. bring-

Psalms 78:23

KJV: Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
EHCC: commanded the clouds from abore®,

Proverbs 8:28

KJV: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
EHCC: established the clouds ubuve?;

Proverbs 15:24

KJV: The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
EHCC: The way of life (is) above!

Ecclesiastes 3:21

KJV: Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?of man: Heb. of the sons of mangoeth upward: Heb. is ascending, etc
EHCC: the spirit of man that goeth upward',

Isaiah 6:2

KJV: Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
EHCC: Above? it stood the seraphims:

Isaiah 7:11

KJV: Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.ask it…: or, make thy petition deep
EHCC: or in the height above!,

Isaiah 8:21

KJV: And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
EHCC: and look upward!

Isaiah 14:18

KJV: All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
EHCC: above the stars of God:

Isaiah 37:3

KJV: And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.blasphemy: or, provocation
EHCC: and bear fruit upward! ;

Isaiah 45:8

KJV: Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.
EHCC: Drop down, ye freavens, from above? ,

Jeremiah 4:28

KJV: For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
EHCC: the heavens above’ be black:

Jeremiah 31:37

KJV: Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.
EHCC: 17 heaven above? can be measured,

Jeremiah 35:4

KJV: And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:door: Heb. threshold, or, vessel
EHCC: which (was) above the chamber

Jeremiah 43:10

KJV: And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
EHCC: will set his throne upon? these stoncs

Jeremiah 52:82

EHCC: set his throne above* the throne

Ezekiel 1:11

KJV: Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.stretched…: or, divided above
EHCC: their wings (were) stretched upward?;

Ezekiel 8:9

KJV: And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
EHCC: from his loins even upward',

Ezekiel 10:19

KJV: And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
EHCC: & 11:22. God of Israel (was) over them

Ezekiel 41:7

KJV: And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.there…: Heb. it was made broader, and went round
EHCC: winding about still upward! (lit. upward

Ezekiel 43:15

KJV: So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.the altar shall: Heb. Harel, that is, the mountain of Godthe altar and: Heb. Ariel, that is, the lion of God
EHCC: and from the altar and upward!

Daniel 12:6

KJV: 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?upon…: or, from above
EHCC: (was) upon? (marg. from above) tre waters

Amos 2:9

KJV: Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
EHCC: 1 destroyed his fruit from above’,
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