Height names a dimension or an elevated position, and the sentence establishes whether the use is spatial, figurative or related to heaven. Ephesians prays that believers comprehend the height alongside other dimensions of Christ's love, while Revelation names equal dimensions in its measured city.
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Height names a dimension or an elevated position, and the sentence establishes whether the use is spatial, figurative or related to heaven. Ephesians prays that believers comprehend the height alongside other dimensions of Christ's love, while Revelation names equal dimensions in its measured city.
The BSB source-word alignment has 6 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include height (2), on high (2), high (1), high position (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 1:78. Its strongest book concentrations include Ephesians (2), Luke (2), James (1), Revelation (1).
Height names a dimension or an elevated position, and the sentence establishes whether the use is spatial, figurative or related to heaven. Ephesians prays that believers comprehend the height alongside other dimensions of Christ's love, while Revelation names equal dimensions in its measured city. Luke speaks of mercy coming from on high and of the Father's promised power, addressed to witnesses who are told to remain in the city.
James tells the brother in humble circumstances to exult in his high position, beside a warning that the rich person's pursuits fade. These uses cannot make altitude, status or greater income one measure of divine favor. Read the named object, promise or comparison without turning poetic dimensions into a technical diagram or an addressed waiting instruction into a rule that every present believer must remain in one physical place.
Love's dimensions, Christ's ascension, honor in humble circumstances, mercy and power from on high, and the measured city account for all six Greek references. Each construction establishes its object.
Will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
Height appears with other dimensions in the prayer to comprehend Christ's love with all the saints, not as a technical measurement of a building.
The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.
The brother in humble circumstances is told to exult in his high position, beside the fading of the rich, without promising an increase in money.
And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
Power from on high belongs to the Father's promise as Jesus directs the named witnesses to remain in the city, retaining recipient and instruction together.
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Greek word. Elevation or exaltation, often representing heaven or the divine realm in theological contexts.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
6 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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The word's object matters. Ephesians places height within a prayer concerning Christ's love, alongside communal comprehension and love that surpasses knowledge. James addresses a brother in humble circumstances and contrasts the rich person's fading pursuits; high position there must not become a promise of a larger bank balance. Luke's mercy and power from on high receive meaning through the named divine action and particular instructions, not through a theory that physical altitude measures nearness to God.
Revelation's city has stated equal dimensions within a vision, whose measurements should remain visible without pretending the noun settles every question about the vision. Ephesians' ascension quotation also retains its own received wording and Christ-centered argument. Teach love, promise, honor or measurement where each is stated, preserving recipients and avoiding prosperity guarantees, spiritual rank based on elevation or speculative diagrams.
Eph.3.18
The licensed Greek range includes height and expressions rendered on high. A dimension, figurative position or heavenly reference comes from the construction and named subject. Ephesians' quotation and the Hebrew Psalm's wording should remain distinct evidence rather than be silently corrected into identical phrasing.
Psalm 68:18 speaks of ascending on high and receiving gifts, while Ephesians 4:8 gives its ascension quotation with giving gifts. The supplied Hebrew and Greek contexts preserve their differing wording, and Ephesians' subsequent argument names Christ's descent and ascent. Reading the explicit connection does not authorize a silent source correction or settle every interpretive question about the quotation from the height noun alone.