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It is often used to describe physical locations, social status, or spiritual conditions. The Berean Standard Bible provides several instances where the term is employed, offering insight into its diverse applications. 1. Geographical Context: The term "lower" is frequently used to describe geographical locations, particularly in relation to elevation. For example, the "Lower Pool" is mentioned in <a href="/isaiah/22-9.htm">Isaiah 22:9</a>, "You saw that the breaches of the City of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool." This reference indicates a specific area within Jerusalem, highlighting the city's topographical features. 2. Social and Hierarchical Implications: In the social context, "lower" can denote a position of lesser status or authority. This is evident in the parables and teachings of Jesus, where humility and servitude are often exalted. In <a href="/luke/14-10.htm">Luke 14:10</a>, Jesus advises, "But when you are invited, go and sit in the lower place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests." Here, the "lower place" symbolizes humility and the potential for exaltation by God. 3. Spiritual Significance: Spiritually, "lower" can refer to a state of humility or contrition before God. In <a href="/ephesians/4-9.htm">Ephesians 4:9</a>, Paul writes, "What does 'He ascended' mean, except that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth?" This passage is often interpreted as referring to Christ's descent into Hades or the grave, emphasizing His humility and the completeness of His redemptive work. 4. Symbolic and Metaphorical Usage: The term is also used metaphorically to describe spiritual conditions or moral standings. In <a href="/psalms/139-15.htm">Psalm 139:15</a>, David speaks of his formation in the womb, "My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth." The "depths of the earth" can be seen as a metaphor for the hidden, lower places where God's creative work is accomplished. 5. Moral and Ethical Dimensions: The concept of being "lower" is sometimes associated with moral failings or ethical shortcomings. In <a href="/proverbs/25-7.htm">Proverbs 25:7</a>, it is written, "for it is better that he says to you, 'Come up here!' than to demote you in the presence of the prince." This proverb warns against self-exaltation and the potential for public humiliation, advocating for a humble approach to social interactions. In summary, the term "lower" in the Bible encompasses a range of meanings, from physical locations to spiritual and moral conditions. It serves as a reminder of the importance of humility, the reality of social hierarchies, and the profound depths of God's creative and redemptive work.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (a.) Compar. of Low, a.2. (v.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.3. (v.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.4. (v.) To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.5. (v.) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.6. (v.) To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.7. (v.) To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.8. (v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.9. (v. i.) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.10. (v. i.) To frown; to look sullen.11. (n.) Cloudiness; gloominess.12. (n.) A frowning; sullenness.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/2737.htm">2737. katoteros -- lower</a> ... lower. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: katoteros Phonetic Spelling: (kat-o'-ter-os) Short Definition: lower Definition: lower. lower. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2737.htm - 5k<a href="/greek/2737a.htm">2737a. katoteros -- lower</a> ... katoteros. 2737b . lower. Transliteration: katoteros Short Definition: lower. Word Origin cptv. of kato Definition lower NASB Word Usage lower (1). ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2737a.htm - 5k<a href="/greek/2737b.htm">2737b. katotero -- lower.</a> ... 2737a, 2737b. katotero. 2738 . lower. Transliteration: katotero Short Definition: lower. Word Origin adverb of katoteros Definition lower. 2737a, 2737b. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2737b.htm - 5k<a href="/greek/5465.htm">5465. chalao -- to slacken</a> ... to slacken. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: chalao Phonetic Spelling: (khal-ah'-o) Short Definition: I let down, lower Definition: I let down, lower ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5465.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/2524.htm">2524. kathiemi -- to let down</a> ... to let down. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kathiemi Phonetic Spelling: (kath-ee'-ay-mee) Short Definition: I let down Definition: I send, let down, lower ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2524.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/1642.htm">1642. elattoo -- to make less (in rank or influence)</a> ... Word Origin from elasson Definition to make less (in rank or influence) NASB Word Usage decrease (1), lower (2), made (2). decrease, make lower. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1642.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/5591.htm">5591. psuchikos -- natural, of the soul or mind</a> ... 5591 ("natural") typically describes the ("lower") aspect of humanity, ie behavior that is "more of (carnality) than heaven." 5591 () then sometimes stands in ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5591.htm - 8k<a href="/greek/2736.htm">2736. kato -- down, below</a> ... down, below. Part of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: kato Phonetic Spelling: (kat'-o;) Short Definition: down, below, lower, under, less Definition: (a) down ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2736.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/4768.htm">4768. stugnazo -- to have a gloomy appearance</a> ... lower, be sad. From the same as stugnetos; to render gloomy, ie (by implication) glower (be overcast with clouds, or sombreness of speech) -- lower, be sad. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4768.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/2658.htm">2658. katantao -- to come down to, reach</a> ... Phonetic Spelling: (kat-an-tah'-o) Short Definition: I come down, arrive at, reach Definition: (a) I come down, either from high land to lower (or actually to ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2658.htm - 7k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/8482.htm">8482. tachti -- lower, lowest</a> ... 8481, 8482. tachti. 8483 . lower, lowest. Transliteration: tachti Phonetic Spelling: (takh-tee') Short Definition: lower. Word Origin ... /hebrew/8482.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/8481.htm">8481. tachton -- lower, lowest</a> ... 8480, 8481. tachton. 8482 . lower, lowest. Transliteration: tachton Phonetic Spelling: (takh-tone') Short Definition: lower. Word ... /hebrew/8481.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/8243.htm">8243. shaq -- (lower) leg</a> ... 8242, 8243. shaq. 8244 . (lower) leg. Transliteration: shaq Phonetic Spelling: (shawk) Short Definition: legs. Word Origin (Aramaic ... /hebrew/8243.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/793.htm">793. eshed -- a foundation, bottom, lower part</a> ... 792, 793. eshed. 794 . a foundation, bottom, lower part. Transliteration: eshed Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-shed) Short Definition: slope. ... /hebrew/793.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/2637.htm">2637. chaser -- to lack, need, be lacking, decrease</a> ... Word Usage become empty (1), decreased (2), depriving (1), empty (1), have...lack (1), lack (2), lacked (2), lacking (4), lacks (2), made him a lower (1), need ... /hebrew/2637.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/8217.htm">8217. shaphal -- low</a> ... Word Origin from shaphel Definition low NASB Word Usage abased (1), deeper (2), humble (3), low (3), lower (2), lowest (1), lowly (5), subjection (1), which is ... /hebrew/8217.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/3381.htm">3381. yarad -- to come or go down, descend</a> ... to descend, to go downwards to a lower region, as the shore. A primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally ... /hebrew/3381.htm - 7k <a href="/hebrew/3342.htm">3342. yeqeb -- wine vat</a> ... From an unused root meaning to excavate; a trough (as dug out); specifically, a wine-vat (whether the lower one, into which the juice drains; or the upper, in ... /hebrew/3342.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/8213.htm">8213. shaphel -- to be or become low, to be abased</a> ... low (1), cast down (1), go down (1), humbles (1), laid low (1), lay low (2), lays it low (2), lowly (1), made low (1), make him low (1), placed lower (1), puts ... /hebrew/8213.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/8483.htm">8483. Tachtim Chodshi -- a place visited by Joab</a> ... Apparently from the plural masculine of tachtiy or tachath and chodesh; lower (ones) monthly; Tachtim-Chodshi, a place in Palestine -- Tahtim-hodshi. ... /hebrew/8483.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_higher_and_lower.htm">Whether the Higher and Lower Reason are Distinct Powers?</a> ... OF THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS (THIRTEEN ARTICLES) Whether the higher and lower reason are distinct powers? ... Therefore the higher and lower reason are two powers. ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the higher and lower.htm<a href="/library/lactantius/on_the_workmanship_of_god/chap_xiii_of_the_lower_members.htm">Of the Lower Members.</a> ... Chap. XIII."Of the Lower Members. Poteram nunc ego ipsorum quoque genitalium membrorum mirificam rationem tibi exponere, nisi ... /.../lactantius/on the workmanship of god/chap xiii of the lower members.htm<a href="/library/waring/hymns_and_meditations/though_some_good_things_of.htm">Though Some Good Things of Lower Worth</a> ... Though some good things of lower worth. 8,8,8,8,8,8 "The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance." " Psalm 16:5. Though some good things of lower worth. ... /.../waring/hymns and meditations/though some good things of.htm<a href="/library/moody/moodys_anecdotes_and_illustrations/let_the_lower_lights_be.htm">"Let the Lower Lights be Burning. "</a> ... "Let the Lower Lights be Burning.". ... We have passed the lower lights; and have lost our chance of getting into the harbor;" What was to be done? ... /.../moody/moodys anecdotes and illustrations/let the lower lights be.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_higher_angels_understand.htm">Whether the Higher Angels Understand by More Universal Species ...</a> ... OF THE MEDIUM OF THE ANGELIC KNOWLEDGE (THREE ARTICLES) Whether the higher angels understand by more universal species than the lower angels? ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the higher angels understand.htm<a href="/library/lactantius/the_divine_institutes/chap_xxii_of_the_error_of.htm">Of the Error of the Poets, and the Return of the Soul from the ...</a> ... The Divine Institutes. Book VII. Of a Happy Life. Chap. XXII."Of the Error of the Poets, and the Return of the Soul from the Lower Regions. ... /.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xxii of the error of.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_will_is_moved_9.htm">Whether the Will is Moved, of Necessity, by the Lower Appetite?</a> ... OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE WILL IS MOVED (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether the will is moved, of necessity, by the lower appetite? Objection ... /.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the will is moved 9.htm<a href="/library/law/an_humble_affectionate_and_earnest_address_to_the_clergy/address_200_0_0_sing_o_ye.htm">Sing, O Ye Heavens, and Shout all Ye Lower Parts of the Earth...</a> ... Address 200: Sing, O ye heavens, and shout all ye lower parts of the earth? Sing, O ye heavens, and shout all ye lower parts of ... /.../address 200 0 0 sing o ye.htm<a href="/library/augustine/the_confessions_of_saint_augustine/chapter_xiii_these_things_i.htm">These Things I Then Knew Not, and I Loved These Lower Beauties...</a> ... Book IV Chapter XIII These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties? These things I then knew not, and I loved ... /.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter xiii these things i.htm<a href="/library/schaff/the_seven_ecumenical_councils/canon_xxv_greek_xxviii_concerning.htm">Concerning Bishops and the Lower Orders who Wait Upon the Most ...</a> ... The Sixth Ecumenical Council. Canon XXV. (Greek xxviii.) Concerning bishops and the lower orders who wait upon the most holy mysteries. ... /.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon xxv greek xxviii concerning.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/l/lower.htm">Lower (72 Occurrences)</a> ... 2. (v.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull ... /l/lower.htm - 30k<a href="/topical/n/natures.htm">Natures (12 Occurrences)</a> ... (WEY). Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we are under obligation that we should live by their rule. (WEY). ... /n/natures.htm - 10k<a href="/topical/d/descent.htm">Descent (22 Occurrences)</a> ... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A change of place from higher to lower; as, a descent from a mountaintop. ... 10. (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone. ... /d/descent.htm - 15k<a href="/topical/b/base.htm">Base (127 Occurrences)</a> ... 13. (n.) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented. 14. ... /b/base.htm - 45k<a href="/topical/a/appeal.htm">Appeal (30 Occurrences)</a> ... Moses established in the wilderness a series of judicatories such that appeals could be made from a lower to a higher (Exodus 18:13-26.). ... /a/appeal.htm - 20k<a href="/topical/d/down.htm">Down (12601 Occurrences)</a> ... 11. (adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up. 12. ... /d/down.htm - 9k<a href="/topical/c/cravings.htm">Cravings (17 Occurrences)</a> ... Galatians 5:16 This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures. ... /c/cravings.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/h/horon.htm">Horon (13 Occurrences)</a> ... Joshua 16:3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and ended at the sea. ... /h/horon.htm - 10k<a href="/topical/e/euphrates.htm">Euphrates (36 Occurrences)</a> ... Its description naturally falls into 3 divisions-the upper, middle and lower. ...Lower down the water is drawn off by irrigating canals and into lagoons. ... /e/euphrates.htm - 26k<a href="/topical/d/descend.htm">Descend (34 Occurrences)</a> ... 1. (vi) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to ... /d/descend.htm - 19k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/little-lower-angels.html">What does it mean that Jesus was a little lower than the angels (Psalm 8:5; Hebrews 2:7)? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Galilee-in-the-Bible.html">What is the significance of Galilee in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Father-greater-I.html">If Jesus was God, why did He say "The Father is greater than I" in John 14:28? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://clyx.com/term/lower.htm">Lower: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Lower (72 Occurrences)<a href="/matthew/11-11.htm">Matthew 11:11</a> "I solemnly tell you that among all of woman born no greater has ever been raised up than John the Baptist; yet one who is of lower rank in the Kingdom of the Heavens is greater than he. (WEY)<a href="/luke/7-28.htm">Luke 7:28</a> "I tell you that among all of women born there is not one greater than John. Yet one who is of lower rank in the Kingdom of God is greater than he. (WEY)<a href="/acts/27-30.htm">Acts 27:30</a> As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow, (Root in WEB WEY ASV RSV NIV)<a href="/romans/7-18.htm">Romans 7:18</a> For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not. (WEY)<a href="/romans/8-12.htm">Romans 8:12</a> Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we are under obligation that we should live by their rule. (WEY)<a href="/romans/8-38.htm">Romans 8:38</a> For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither the lower ranks of evil angels nor the higher, neither things present nor things future, nor the forces of nature, (WEY)<a href="/2_corinthians/11-7.htm">2 Corinthians 11:7</a> Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward? (See NIV)<a href="/galatians/5-13.htm">Galatians 5:13</a> You however, brethren, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an excuse for giving way to your lower natures; but become bondservants to one another in a spirit of love. (WEY)<a href="/galatians/5-16.htm">Galatians 5:16</a> This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures. (WEY)<a href="/galatians/5-17.htm">Galatians 5:17</a> For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined. (WEY)<a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19</a> Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery; (WEY)<a href="/galatians/5-24.htm">Galatians 5:24</a> Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites. (WEY)<a href="/galatians/6-8.htm">Galatians 6:8</a> He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages. (WEY)<a href="/ephesians/2-3.htm">Ephesians 2:3</a> Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others. (WEY)<a href="/ephesians/4-9.htm">Ephesians 4:9</a> Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/colossians/2-23.htm">Colossians 2:23</a> These rules have indeed an appearance of wisdom where self-imposed worship exists, and an affectation of humility and an ascetic severity. But not one of them is of any value in combating the indulgence of our lower natures. (WEY)<a href="/hebrews/2-7.htm">Hebrews 2:7</a> You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor. (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/hebrews/2-9.htm">Hebrews 2:9</a> But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone. (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_peter/2-11.htm">1 Peter 2:11</a> Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures: for all such cravings wage war upon the soul. (WEY)<a href="/genesis/6-16.htm">Genesis 6:16</a> You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/8-3.htm">Genesis 8:3</a> And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/35-8.htm">Genesis 35:8</a> And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name 'Oak of weeping.' (YLT)<a href="/exodus/19-17.htm">Exodus 19:17</a> Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. (WEB YLT)<a href="/exodus/28-26.htm">Exodus 28:26</a> Then make two gold rings and put them on the lower ends of the bag, at the edge of it on the inner side nearest to the ephod. (BBE)<a href="/exodus/28-27.htm">Exodus 28:27</a> You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. (See RSV)<a href="/exodus/39-19.htm">Exodus 39:19</a> And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two lower ends of the bag, on the inner side nearest to the ephod. (BBE)<a href="/leviticus/13-20.htm">Leviticus 13:20</a> and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/leviticus/13-21.htm">Leviticus 13:21</a> But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/leviticus/13-26.htm">Leviticus 13:26</a> But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn't lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest shall isolate him seven days. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)<a href="/leviticus/13-45.htm">Leviticus 13:45</a> "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry,'Unclean! Unclean!' (See NIV)<a href="/leviticus/14-37.htm">Leviticus 14:37</a> And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall; (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)<a href="/deuteronomy/28-43.htm">Deuteronomy 28:43</a> The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/joshua/13-27.htm">Joshua 13:27</a> and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan's bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward. (See NAS RSV)<a href="/joshua/15-2.htm">Joshua 15:2</a> Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward; (See NAS)<a href="/joshua/15-19.htm">Joshua 15:19</a> She said, "Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water." He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. (WEB BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/joshua/16-3.htm">Joshua 16:3</a> and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and ended at the sea. (WEB BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/joshua/18-13.htm">Joshua 18:13</a> The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower. (WEB BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15</a> She said to him, "Give me a blessing; for that you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water." Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. (WEB BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/judges/7-8.htm">Judges 7:8</a> So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley. (BBE YLT)<a href="/2_samuel/6-22.htm">2 Samuel 6:22</a> And I will do even worse than this, and make myself even lower in your eyes: but the servant-girls of whom you were talking will give me honour. (BBE)<a href="/1_kings/9-17.htm">1 Kings 9:17</a> Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower, (WEB BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_chronicles/7-24.htm">1 Chronicles 7:24</a> His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. (WEB BBE YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_chronicles/8-5.htm">2 Chronicles 8:5</a> Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; (WEB BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/nehemiah/4-13.htm">Nehemiah 4:13</a> Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. (KJV DBY WBS)<a href="/job/41-24.htm">Job 41:24</a> His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone. (WEB BBE YLT NAS NIV)<a href="/psalms/8-5.htm">Psalms 8:5</a> For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS NIV)<a href="/psalms/63-9.htm">Psalms 63:9</a> But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/psalms/139-15.htm">Psalms 139:15</a> My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth. (DBY YLT)<a href="/proverbs/25-7.htm">Proverbs 25:7</a> for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/isaiah/11-11.htm">Isaiah 11:11</a> And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands. (See NIV)<a href="/isaiah/22-9.htm">Isaiah 22:9</a> You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/isaiah/44-23.htm">Isaiah 44:23</a> Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/jeremiah/44-1.htm">Jeremiah 44:1</a> The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying, (See NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/44-15.htm">Jeremiah 44:15</a> Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, (See NIV)<a href="/lamentations/3-55.htm">Lamentations 3:55</a> I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit. (YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/24-17.htm">Ezekiel 24:17</a> Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread. (See NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/24-22.htm">Ezekiel 24:22</a> You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. (See NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/26-20.htm">Ezekiel 26:20</a> then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living: (WEB DBY YLT NAS)<a href="/ezekiel/31-14.htm">Ezekiel 31:14</a> to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit. (WEB DBY YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/31-16.htm">Ezekiel 31:16</a> I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. (WEB DBY YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/31-18.htm">Ezekiel 31:18</a> To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh. (WEB DBY YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/32-18.htm">Ezekiel 32:18</a> Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. (WEB DBY YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/32-24.htm">Ezekiel 32:24</a> There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. (WEB DBY YLT NAS)<a href="/ezekiel/40-18.htm">Ezekiel 40:18</a> The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/40-19.htm">Ezekiel 40:19</a> Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/41-7.htm">Ezekiel 41:7</a> And for the side-chambers there was an enlarging, and it went round about the house increasing upward; for the surrounding of the house increased upward round about the house; therefore the house had width upward, and so ascended from the lower story to the upper, by the middle one. (DBY YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/42-5.htm">Ezekiel 42:5</a> Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/42-6.htm">Ezekiel 42:6</a> for they 'are' threefold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it hath been kept back -- more than the lower and than the middle one -- from the ground. (YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/43-14.htm">Ezekiel 43:14</a> From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/daniel/2-39.htm">Daniel 2:39</a> And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth. (BBE YLT)<a href="/daniel/6-24.htm">Daniel 6:24</a> And the king hath said, and they have brought those men who had accused Daniel, and to the den of lions they have cast them, they, their sons, and their wives; and they have not come to the lower part of the den till that the lions have power over them, and all their bones they have broken small. (YLT)<a href="/jonah/1-5.htm">Jonah 1:5</a> And the mariners were afraid, and cried every one unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to be lightened of them. But Jonah had gone down into the lower part of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 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