International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Eminent

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Eminent


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em´i-nent: In the King James Version (only in , , ; ) refers literally to physical elevation; the Revised Version (British and American) in the last passage renders “lofty” (Hebrew tālūl, “uplifted,” “heaped up”) and in the others “vaulted place” (Hebrew gabh, “rounded place,” “mound” the English Revised Version, margin “a vaulted chamber”).