Genesis 7:20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
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Upward
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Haggai 2:18
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.
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35 occurrences in 35 verses.
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מַעַל
maʻal · mah'al
59 times translated as this KJV form136 total Strong's occurrences
properly,the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: above, exceeding(-ly), forward, on (× very) high, over, up(-on, -ward), very.
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Strong's first: Genesis 7:20Strong's last: Haggai 2:18
Open full H4605 profile →גָּבַהּ
gâbahh · gaw-bah'
1 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
to soar, i.e. be lofty; figuratively, to be haughty
Strong's KJV usage: exalt, be haughty, be (make) high(-er), lift up, mount up, be proud, raise up great height, upward.
Strong's first: Job 5:7Strong's last: Job 5:7
Open full H1361 profile →מָרוֹם
mârôwm · maw-rome'
1 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences
altitude, i.e. concretely (an elevated place), abstractly (elevation, figuratively (elation), or adverbially (aloft)
Strong's KJV usage: (far) above, dignity, haughty, height, (most, on) high (one, place), loftily, upward.
Strong's first: Isaiah 38:14Strong's last: Isaiah 38:14
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H4605
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
H4605
And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
H4605
Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
H4605
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.
H4605
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.
H4605
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.
H4605
So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.
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upward
UP'WARD, adjective [up and ward, Latin versus.]
Directed to a higher place; as with upward eye; with upward speed.
UP'WARD, noun The top. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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