Strong's #4605: ma`al (pronounced mah'al)
from 5927; properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.:-- above, exceeding(-ly), forward, on (X very) high, over, up(-on, -ward), very.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ma‛al
1) higher part, upper part (substantive)
1a) above (adverb)
1b) on the top of, above, on higher ground than (preposition)
1c) upwards, higher, above (with locative)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from H5927
Usage:
This word is used 140 times:
Job 3:4: "let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine"
Job 18:16: "His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off."
Job 31:2: "For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?"
Job 31:28: "for I should have denied the God that is above."
Psalms 74:5: "A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees."
Psalms 78:23: "Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,"
Proverbs 8:28: "When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:"
Proverbs 15:24: "The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell"
Ecclesiastes 3:21: "of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth"
Isaiah 6:2: " Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings"
Isaiah 7:11: "ask it either in the depth, or in the height above."
Isaiah 8:21: "their king and their God, and look upward."
Isaiah 14:13: "into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit"
Isaiah 37:31: "downward, and bear fruit upward:"
Isaiah 45:8: "Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth"
Jeremiah 4:28: "shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because"
Jeremiah 31:37: "the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth"
Jeremiah 35:4: "the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son"
Jeremiah 43:10: "my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that"
Jeremiah 52:32: "him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that"
Ezekiel 1:11: "Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined"
Ezekiel 1:22: "stretched forth over their heads above."
Ezekiel 1:26: " And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne,"
Ezekiel 1:26: "of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon"
Ezekiel 1:27: "within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins"
Ezekiel 8:2: "of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness,"
Ezekiel 10:19: "of the God of Israel was over them above."
Ezekiel 11:22: "of the God of Israel was over them above."
Ezekiel 37:8: "upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath"
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"
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"
Ezekiel 41:7: "to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about"
Ezekiel 41:7: "to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about"
Ezekiel 41:7: "round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward,"
Ezekiel 43:15: "shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns."
Daniel 12:6: "clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long"
Daniel 12:7: "clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up"
Amos 2:9: "was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath."
Haggai 2:15: "consider from this day and upward, from before a stone"
Haggai 2:18: "now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day"
