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Elyon

Elyon or El Elyon ( ʼĒl ʻElyōn), is an epithet that appears in the Hebrew Bible and in other ancient writings. is usually rendered in English as "God Most High", and similarly in the Septuagint as ("God the highest"). The title is a common topic of scholarly debate, sometimes interpreted as equivalent to the Abrahamic God, and otherwise theorized as a reference to a separate deity of its own kind, potentially above that of Yahweh. Outside the biblical context, the term elyon 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. it is applied to a basket in Genesis 40:17, and to a chamber in Ezekiel 42:5).

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Elyon or El Elyon ( ʼĒl ʻElyōn), is an epithet that appears in the Hebrew Bible and in other ancient writings. is usually rendered in English as "God Most High", and similarly in the Septuagint as ("God the highest"). The title is a common topic of scholarly debate, sometimes interpreted as equivalent to the Abrahamic God, and otherwise theorized as a reference to a separate deity of its own kind, potentially above that of Yahweh. Outside the biblical context, the term elyon 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. it is applied to a basket in Genesis 40:17, and to a chamber in Ezekiel 42:5).

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