KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Elevated or far above; great in height, stature, or position; aloft. Sense 2: Elevated or chief in rank, office, power, authority, honor, excellence, or importance. Sense 3: Great in degree, intensity, fullness, or advancement; loud or strongly expressed. Sense 4: Proud, haughty, or self-exalting. Sense 5: Difficult, lofty, or beyond reach or understanding. Sense 6: In high way, a principal or public road; in high place, an elevated site, often used for worship or sacrifice.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 7:19
Complete exact-word concordance
For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
For behold, the LORD commeth forth out of his place, and will come downe and tread vpon the high places of the earth.
1611 marginal noteIsai. 26.21 psal. 115.3.
1611 marginal noteDeut. 32.13. and 33.29.
For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
For the transgression of Iacob is all this, and for the sinnes of the house of Israel: What is the transgression of Iacob? Is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Iudah? are they not Ierusalem?
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Ierusalem shal become heapes, and the mountaine of the house, as the high places of the forrest.
1611 marginal noteIer.26.18
¶ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
¶ Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow my selfe before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calues of a yeere olde?
1611 marginal noteHeb. sonnes of a yeere.
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Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
Extending a great distance above the surface of the earth; elevated; lofty; of great altitude. Elevated in rank, condition or office. Exalted in excellence or extent. Difficult; abstruse. Arrogant; proud; lofty. Public; powerful; triumphant. Powerful; mighty. Possessed of supreme power, dominion or excellence. Great; important; solemn; held in veneration. Full; complete. Loud.
An elevated place; superior region; as on high; from on high. Aloft.
