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higher

Meaning of “higher”

Comparative form of high: more elevated or greater in height, rank, degree, or importance.. Sense 1: Raised or far above; great in height, rank, degree, or importance. Sense 2: As an adverb, greatly or aloft.

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21 occurrences18 verses14 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Numbers 24:7

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Ezekiel 9:2
And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 9:2 · retained source text

And behold, sixe men came from the way of the higher gate, which lyeth toward the North, and euery man a slaughter weapon in his hand: and one man among them was clothed with linnen, with a writers inkehorne by his side, and they went in and stood beside the brasen altar.

1611 marginal noteHeb. which is turned.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a weapon of his breaking in pieces.

1611 marginal noteHeb. vpon his loines.

Ezekiel 42:5
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 42:5 · retained source text

Now the vpper-chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher then these, then the lower, and then the middlemost of the building.

1611 marginal noteOr, did eate of these.

1611 marginal noteOr, and the building consisted of the lower and the middle-most.

Ezekiel 43:13
¶ And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 43:13 · retained source text

¶ And these are the measures of the Altar after the cubites; the cubite is a cubite and an hand breadth, euen the bottom shalbe a cubite, and the breadth a cubite, and the border thereof by the edge therof round about shalbe a spanne, and this shalbe the higher place of the Altar.

1611 marginal noteHebr. bosome.

1611 marginal noteHebr. lippe.

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