Definition

properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.

Etymology

from H5927 (עָלָה);

Where the KJV renders it

• above
• exceeding(-ly)
• forward
• on ( very) high
• over
• up(-on
• -ward)
• very

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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