High (from on, Most), Highly
High (from on, Most), Highly
“high, lofty,” is used (a) naturally, of mountains, Mat 4:8; Mat 17:1; Mar 9:2; Rev 21:10; of a wall, Rev 21:12; (b) figuratively, of the arm of God, Act 13:17; of heaven, “on high,” plural, lit., “in high (places),” Heb 1:3; (c) metaphorically, Luk 16:15, RV, “exalted” (AV, “highly esteemed”); Rom 11:20, in the best texts, “high-minded” [lit., “mind (not) high things”]; Rom 12:16.
“most high,” is a superlative degree, the positive not being in use; it is used of God in Luk 1:32, Luk 1:35, Luk 1:76; Luk 6:35, in each of which the RV has “the most High,” for AV, “the highest;” AV and RV in Mar 5:7; Luk 8:28; Act 7:48; Act 16:17; Heb 7:1. See HIGHEST (below).
“great,” is translated “high” in Joh 19:31, of the Sabbath day at the Passover season; here the meaning is virtually equivalent to “holy,” See GREAT.
Note: In Heb 10:21, the RV rightly has “a great (priest),” AV, “high.” For “high places,” Eph 6:12, AV, see HEAVENLY, B. No. 2.
“height,” is used with ex (ek) “from,” in the phrase “on high,” Luk 1:78; Luk 24:49; with eis, “in” or “into,” Eph 4:8. See ESTATE, HEIGHT, No. 1.
“high thing,” 2Co 10:5; in Rom 8:39; “height. ” See HEIGHT, No. 2.
“above, upward,” is used in Phi 3:14, of the “high calling of God in Christ Jesus,” the prize of which is set before believers as their goal, lit., “calling upward” (RV, marg.), a preferable rendering to “heavenly calling.” See ABOVE.