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highest

Meaning of “highest”

Superlative form of high: most elevated or greatest 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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First occurrence: Psalms 18:13

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Psalms 18:13
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
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1611 witness · Psalms 18:13 · retained source text

The LORD also thundered in the heauens, and the highest gaue his voyce; hailestones and coales of fire.

Psalms 87:5
And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
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1611 witness · Psalms 87:5 · retained source text

And of Zion it shalbe said, This and that man was borne in her: and the highest himselfe shall establish her.

Proverbs 8:26
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
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1611 witness · Proverbs 8:26 · retained source text

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

1611 marginal noteOr, open places.

1611 marginal noteOr, the chiefe part.

Proverbs 9:3
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
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1611 witness · Proverbs 9:3 · retained source text

She hath sent forth her maidens; she cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie.

Ecclesiastes 5:8
¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 5:8 · retained source text

¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poore, and violent peruerting of iudgement, and iustice in a prouince, maruell not at the matter: for he that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.

1611 marginal noteHeb. at the will or purpose.

Ezekiel 17:3
And say, Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 17:3 · retained source text

And say, Thus saith the LORD God, A great eagle with great wings, long wing’d, full of feathers, which had diuers colours, came vnto Lebanon, and tooke the highest branch of the Cedar.

1611 marginal noteHebr. embroydering.

Ezekiel 17:22
¶ Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
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¶ Thus saith the LORD God, I wil also take of the highest branch of the high Cedar, and will set it, I will croppe off from the top of his yong twigges a tender one, and will plant it vpon an high mountaine and eminent.

Ezekiel 41:7
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.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 41:7 · retained source text

And there was an enlarging and a winding about still vpward to the side-chambers, for the winding about of the house went still vpward round about the house: therefore the bredth of the house was still vpward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middest.

1611 marginal noteHeb. it was made broader and went round.

Matthew 21:9
And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
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And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid: Blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest.

Mark 11:10
Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
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Blessed be the kingdome of our father Dauid, that commeth in the Name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest.

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