Strong's Definition
from 7311; altitude, i.e. concretely (an elevated place), abstractly (elevation, figuratively (elation), or adverbially (aloft)
KJV Usage: (far) above, dignity, haughty, height, (most, on) high (one, place), loftily, upward
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָרוֹם (ma.rom) — height. 1) height 1a) height, elevation, elevated place 1a1) in a high place (adv) 1b) height 1c) proudly (adv) 1d) of nobles (fig.)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · רום
High
high, upwards = a position of a relatively high elevation above the earth
Great
high position, eminence literally: on high; hence: = state in which humans or deities occupy a position of great eminence, either in their own eyes or in the eyes of others
JOB 5:11 · PSA 73:8 · PSA 92:9 · ECC 10:6 · ISA 24:4 · JER 17:12
Titles
Exalted One literally: high (one); hence: = a reference to God with focus on his extraordinary greatness
Non-Know
far literally: (too) high (for someone); hence: = state in which certain things are unknown to humans
Landforms | ≈ גִּבְעָה · הַר
height literally: height; hence: = an elevated area, ≈ sometimes associated with security
JDG 5:18 · 2KI 19:23 · PSA 68:19 · PRO 8:2 · PRO 9:3 · PRO 9:14 · ISA 22:16 · ISA 24:4 · ISA 26:5 · ISA 33:16 · ISA 37:24 · ISA 37:24 · JER 31:12 · JER 49:16 · EZK 17:23 · EZK 20:40 · EZK 34:14 · OBA 1:3 · HAB 2:9
| ≈ שָׁמַיִם
on high literally: height; hence: = the place in the highest heavens where God lives
2SA 22:17 · JOB 16:19 · JOB 25:2 · JOB 31:2 · PSA 7:8 · PSA 18:17 · PSA 71:19 · PSA 93:4 · PSA 102:20 · PSA 144:7 · PSA 148:1 · ISA 24:18 · ISA 24:21 · ISA 24:21 · ISA 32:15 · ISA 33:5 · ISA 38:14 · ISA 57:15 · ISA 58:4 · JER 25:30 · JER 51:53 · LAM 1:13 · MIC 6:6
1 ISA 24:4 MT מְרֹום עַם־הָארֶץ ESV "the highest people of the earth" NJPS "the most exalted people of the earth" NJB "the pick of earth's people" CEV "its mighty leaders" = [1b] | REB "the heights of the earth" = [1e] | RSV NRSV "the heavens ... together with the earth" GNT "both earth and sky" 2 PSA 56:3 NJPS "Exalted One" NRSV "Most High" | RSV ESV "proudly" NIV "in their pride" | NJB "from the heights" 3 PSA 10:5 RSV NRSV ESV "on high" NJPS "far" NJB "above (his head)" REB "beyond (their grasp)" | Dahood (AYBC) "Exalted One" = [1c] | NIV "haughty"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מָרוֹם n.m. height (poet.) height, elevation (concr.), elevated place
alone = height of heaven
adv. fig., = proudly
fig. of nobles
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