Lexicon :: Strong's H4605 - maʿal

His roots below dry up,

and his branches above wither away.

For what portion would I have from God above,

or what inheritance from the Almighty on high?

It was like men in a thicket of trees,

wielding axes,

He gave a command to the clouds above

and opened the doors of heaven.

“when he placed the skies above,

when the fountains of the ocean gushed out,

For the prudent the path of life leads upward,

so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Who knows if the spirits of the children of Adam go upward and the spirits of animals go downward to the earth?

Seraphim[fn] were standing above him; they each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.

“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God ​— ​it can be as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.”

They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

You said to yourself,

“I will ascend to the heavens;

I will set up my throne

above the stars of God.

I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,

in the remotest parts of the North.[fn]

“The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

“Heavens, sprinkle from above,

and let the skies shower righteousness.

Let the earth open up

so that salvation will sprout

and righteousness will spring up with it.

I, the LORD, have created it.

“Because of this, the earth will mourn;

the skies above will grow dark.

I have spoken; I have planned,

and I will not relent or turn back from it.”

“This is what the LORD says:

Only if the heavens above can be measured

and the foundations of the earth below explored,

will I reject all of Israel’s descendants

because of all they have done —

this is the LORD’s declaration.

and I brought them into the temple of the LORD to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God, who had a chamber near the officials’ chamber, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.

“and tell them, ‘This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will place his throne on these stones that I have embedded, and he will pitch his pavilion over them.

He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

That is what their faces were like. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching that of another and two wings covering its body.

I looked, and there was someone who looked like a man.[fn] From what seemed to be his waist down was fire, and from his waist up was something that looked bright, like the gleam of amber.

The cherubim lifted their wings and ascended from the earth right before my eyes; the wheels were beside them as they went. The glory of the God of Israel was above them, and it stopped at the entrance to the eastern gate of the LORD’s house.

Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, lifted their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

As I looked, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.[fn]

“The altar hearth[fn] is 7 feet high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.

One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the water of the river, “How long until the end of these wondrous things? ”

Yet I destroyed the Amorite as Israel advanced;

his height was like the cedars,

and he was as sturdy as the oaks;

I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

“Now from this day on, think carefully: Before one stone was placed on another in the LORD’s temple,