Elyon

Elyon (Hebrew: עֶלְיוֹן‎ ʿElyōn) is an epithet of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible. ʾĒl ʿElyōn is usually rendered in English as "God Most High", and similarly in the Septuagint as ὁ Θεός ὁ ὕψιστος ("God the highest").

"Most High" redirects here. For the song by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, see Most High (song).
For other uses, see the Most High.

The term also has mundane uses, such as "upper" (where the ending in both roots is a locative, not superlative or comparative), "top", or "uppermost", referring simply to the position of objects (e.g. applied to a basket in Genesis 40:17 or to a chamber in Ezekiel 42:5).

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