עִלַּי
ʻillay · H5943 · Aramaic · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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Most High
An epithet for the God of Israel as the one who not only lives in the highest heavens but is also worthy of the highest honor
ExamplesDaniel 3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace of blazing fire; he said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, come out, you servants of the Most High God, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the middle of the fire.
Daniel 4:2 “I am pleased to declare the signs and miracles that the Most High God has done for me.
Daniel 4:17 “This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers, And the decision is a command of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, And He grants it to whomever He wishes And sets over it the lowliest of people.”
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְדַעcertify 3
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- שַׁלִּיטcaptain 3
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- גְּזֵרָהdecree 1
- צַדagainst 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- עֶלְיוֹן ʻelyôwn · H5945 · high, upper, top
- עִלַּי (ʻillay, H5943) (Aramaic עִלַּי) and עֶלְיוֹן (ʻelyôwn, H5945) (Hebrew עֶלְיוֹן) are sister-language cognates from the same Semitic root denoting height/supremacy, both functioning as divine epithets meaning '(Most) High' and appearing in parallel Daniel passages where Aramaic and Hebrew sections treat the same theological concept.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Titles003001017
- Daniel 3:26 has Nebuchadnezzar call out, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, come out, you servants of the Most High God, and come here!”
Word family 21 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5943. Illay [עִלָּי K§ 59 l) e)] adjective highest; — always emphatic עליא Kt, עִלָּאָה…
[עִלָּי K§ 59 l) e)] adjective highest; — always emphatic עליא Kt, עִלָּאָה Qr, the Most High God: ע ׳אֱלָהָא Dan 3:26; Daniel 3:32; Dan 5:18, Dan 5:21; ׳ע alone, the Most High, Dan 4:14; Dan 4:21; Dan 4:22; Dan 4:29; Dan 4:31; Dan 7:25 (compare Nabataean proper name עליאל Lzb341 SAC91).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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