Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Upper’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Upper’ occurs 48 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 6:16 You shall make a window in the ark, and you shall complete it within a cubit of the top. Then you shall set the door of the ark at its side. You shall make in it: a lower part, upper rooms, and a third level.Genesis 6:16
Number of the word / term Upper in Genesis: 1
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 12:7 And they shall take from its blood, and place it on both the door posts and the upper threshold of the houses, in which they will consume it.Exodus 12:7
Exodus 12:22 And dip a little bundle of hyssop in the blood which is at the entrance, and sprinkle the upper threshold with it, and both of the door posts. Let none of you go out of the door of his house until morning.Exodus 12:22
Exodus 12:23 For the Lord will cross through, striking the Egyptians. And when he will see the blood on the upper threshold, and on both the door posts, he will pass over the door of the house and not permit the Striker to enter into your houses or to do harm.Exodus 12:23
Exodus 39:21 with the head in the upper part at the middle, and a woven edge all around the head.Exodus 39:21
Number of the word / term Upper in Exodus: 4
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 24:6 You shall not accept an upper or lower millstone as collateral. For then he will have placed his life with you.Deuteronomy 24:6
Number of the word / term Upper in Deuteronomy: 1
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 16:5 And the border of the sons of Ephraim was made by their families. And their possession toward the east was from Ataroth-addar, as far as upper Beth-horon,Joshua 16:5
Number of the word / term Upper in Joshua: 1
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Judges
Judges 1:15 But she responded: “Give a blessing to me. For you have given me a dry land. Also give a watered land.” Therefore, Caleb gave to her the upper watered land and the lower watered land.Judges 1:15
Judges 3:20 Ehud entered to him. Now he was sitting alone in a summer upper room. And he said, “I have a word from God to you.” And immediately he rose up from his throne.Judges 3:20
Judges 3:23 Then Ehud carefully closed the doors of the upper room. And securing the bars,Judges 3:23
Judges 3:24 he departed by a back exit. And the servants of the king, entering, saw that the doors of the upper room were closed, and they said, “Perhaps he is emptying his bowels in the summer room.”Judges 3:24
Judges 5:28 His mother gazed through a window and wailed. And she spoke from an upper room: ‘Why does his chariot delay in returning? Why are the feet of his team of horses so slow?’Judges 5:28
Judges 16:27 Now the house was full of men and women. And all the leaders of the Philistines were there, as well as about three thousand persons, of both sexes, on the roof and in the upper level of the house, who were watching Samson being mocked.Judges 16:27
Number of the word / term Upper in Judges: 6
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 9:25 And they descended from the high place into the town, and he spoke with Saul in the upper room. And he set out a bed for Saul in the upper room, and he slept.1 Samuel 9:25
1 Samuel 9:26 And when they had risen in the morning, and it now began to be light, Samuel called to Saul in the upper room, saying, “Rise up, so that I may send you on.” And Saul rose up. And they both departed, that is to say, he and Samuel.1 Samuel 9:26
Number of the word / term Upper in 1 Samuel: 2
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 18:33 And so the king, being greatly saddened, ascended to the upper room of the gate, and he wept. And as he went, he was speaking in this manner: “My son Absalom! Absalom my son! Who can grant to me that I may die on your behalf? Absalom, my son! My son, Absalom!”2 Samuel 18:33
Number of the word / term Upper in 2 Samuel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book 1 Kings
1 Kings 17:19 And Elijah said to her, “Give your son to me.” And he took him from her bosom, and he carried him to an upper room, where he himself was staying. And he placed him on his own bed.1 Kings 17:19
1 Kings 17:23 And Elijah took the boy, and he brought him down from the upper room to the lower part of the house. And he gave him to his mother. And he said to her, “See, your son lives.”1 Kings 17:23
Number of the word / term Upper in 1 Kings: 2
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through the lattices of his upper room, which he had in Samaria, and he was injured. And he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Ekron, as to whether I may be able to survive this infirmity of mine.”2 Kings 1:2
2 Kings 4:10 Therefore, let us prepare a small upper room for him, and place a bed in it for him, and a table, and a chair, and a lampstand, so that when he comes to us, he may stay there.”2 Kings 4:10
2 Kings 4:11 Then it happened that, on a certain day, arriving, he turned aside into the upper room, and he rested there.2 Kings 4:11
2 Kings 18:17 Then the king of the Assyrians sent Tartan, and Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh, from Lachish, to king Hezekiah, with a powerful hand, to Jerusalem. And when they had ascended, they arrived in Jerusalem, and they stood beside the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is along the way of the fuller’s field.2 Kings 18:17
2 Kings 23:12 Also, the altars which were upon the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king destroyed. And he hurried from there, and he scattered their ashes into the torrent Kidron.2 Kings 23:12
Number of the word / term Upper in 2 Kings: 5
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book 1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles 7:24 Now his daughter was Sheerah, who built lower and upper Beth-horon, and also Uzzen-sheerah.1 Chronicles 7:24
1 Chronicles 28:11 Then David gave to his son Solomon a description of the portico, and the temple, and the storerooms, and the upper floor, and the innermost rooms, and the house of propitiation,1 Chronicles 28:11
Number of the word / term Upper in 1 Chronicles: 2
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 3:9 Then he also made nails of gold, such that each nail weighed fifty shekels. Also, he covered the upper rooms in gold.2 Chronicles 3:9
2 Chronicles 8:5 And he built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, as walled cities, having gates and bars and locks,2 Chronicles 8:5
2 Chronicles 23:20 And he took the centurions, and the most valiant men, and the leaders of the people, and all the common people of the land, and they set out to descend to the king, from the house of the Lord, and to enter through the middle of the upper gate, to the house of the king. And they placed him on the royal throne.2 Chronicles 23:20
2 Chronicles 32:30 This same Hezekiah was the one who blocked the upper font of the waters of Gihon, and who diverted them down to the western part of the City of David. In all his works, he prosperously accomplished whatever he willed.2 Chronicles 32:30
2 Chronicles 34:11 And they gave it to the artisans and the stoneworkers, so that they might buy stones from the quarries, and wood for the joints of the building and for the upper floors the houses, which the kings of Judah had destroyed.2 Chronicles 34:11
Number of the word / term Upper in 2 Chronicles: 5
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Nehemiah
Nehemiah 3:31 After him, Malchijah, the son of the goldsmith, built, even up to the house of the temple servants and of the sellers of small items, opposite the judgment gate, and even to the upper room of the corner.Nehemiah 3:31
Nehemiah 3:32 And within the upper room of the corner, at the gate of the flock, the goldsmiths and the merchants built.Nehemiah 3:32
Number of the word / term Upper in Nehemiah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Esther
Esther 9:1 Therefore, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have said before is called Adar, when all the Jews were prepared to be executed and their enemies were greedy for their blood, the situation turned around, and the Jews began to have the upper hand and to vindicate themselves of their adversaries.Esther 9:1
Number of the word / term Upper in Esther: 1
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 7:3 And the Lord said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son, Jashub, who was left behind, to the end of the aqueduct, at the upper pool, on the road to the fuller’s field.Isaiah 7:3
Isaiah 36:2 And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabshakeh from Lachish into Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a great force, and he stood near the aqueduct of the upper pool, at the road to the fuller’s field.Isaiah 36:2
Number of the word / term Upper in Isaiah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 20:2 And Pashhur struck the prophet Jeremiah, and he sent him to the stocks, which were at the upper gate of Benjamin at the house of the Lord.Jeremiah 20:2
Jeremiah 22:13 Woe to one who builds his house with injustice and his upper rooms without judgment, who oppresses his friend without cause and does not pay him his wages.Jeremiah 22:13
Jeremiah 22:14 And he says: ‘I will build a broad house for myself, with spacious upper rooms.’ He makes windows for himself, and he builds the roof out of cedar, and he paints it with red ocher.Jeremiah 22:14
Jeremiah 36:10 And Baruch read from the volume the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, at the treasury of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper vestibule, at the entrance to the new gate of the house of the Lord, in the hearing of all the people.Jeremiah 36:10
Number of the word / term Upper in Jeremiah: 4
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 9:2 And behold, six men were approaching from the way of the upper gate, which looks to the north. And each one had equipment for killing in his hand. Also, one man in their midst was clothed with linen, and an instrument for writing was at his waist. And they entered and stood beside the bronze altar.Ezekiel 9:2
Ezekiel 41:20 From the floor, even to the upper parts of the gate, there were cherubim and palm trees engraved in the wall of the temple.Ezekiel 41:20
Ezekiel 42:5 In that place, there were storerooms in the upper part of the lower level. For they supported the porticos, which projected from them out of the lower level, and out of the middle of the building.Ezekiel 42:5
Number of the word / term Upper in Ezekiel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Daniel
Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel learned of this, namely, that the law had been established, he entered his house, and, opening the windows in his upper room towards Jerusalem, he knelt down three times a day, and he adored and gave thanks before his God, as he had been accustomed to do previously.Daniel 6:10
Number of the word / term Upper in Daniel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Upper’ in the book Acts
Acts 9:37 And it happened that, in those days, she became ill and died. And when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.Acts 9:37
Acts 9:39 Then Peter, rising up, went with them. And when he had arrived, they led him to an upper room. And all the widows were standing around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and garments that Dorcas had made for them.Acts 9:39
Acts 10:9 Then, on the following day, while they were making the journey and approaching the city, Peter ascended to the upper rooms, so that he might pray, at about the sixth hour.Acts 10:9
Acts 19:1 Now it happened that, while Apollo was at Corinth, Paul, after he had journeyed through the upper regions, arrived at Ephesus. And he met with certain disciples.Acts 19:1
Acts 20:8 Now there were plenty of lamps in the upper room, where we were gathered.Acts 20:8
Number of the word / term ‘Upper’ in Acts: 5
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
