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To raise

זָקַףStrong’s H2210

zaqaph (za-qaph)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Zaqaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “raising up”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.”
Psalms 145:14 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to raise up
How it's translated
  • and raising up 1
  • raising up 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

זָקַף zaqaph · to raise

(Qal) to raise up Aramaic equivalent: ze.qaph (זְקַף "to raise" H2211)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “raise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

RAISE, verb transitive

raze. [This word occurs often in the Gothic version of the gospels,, 44. These verbs appear to be the Latin gradior, gressus, without the prefix. Latin to go to walk, to pass.]

  1. To lift; to take up; to heave; to lift from a low or reclining posture; as, to raise a stone or weight; to raise the body in bed.“The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up” Acts 12:7
  2. To set upright; as, to raise a mast.
  3. To set up; to erect; to set on its foundations and put together; as, to raise the frame of a house.
  4. To build; as, to raise a city, a fort, a wall, etc.“I will raise forts against thee” Isaiah 29:3
All definitions
  1. To rebuild.“They shall raise up the former desolations” Isaiah 61:4
  2. To form to some height by accumulation; as, to raise a heap of stones. Joshua 8:29
  3. To make; to produce; to amass; as, to raise a great estate out of small profits.
  4. To enlarge; to amplify.
  5. To exalt; to elevate in condition; as, to raise one from a low estate.
  6. To exalt; to advance; to promote in rank or honor; as, to raise one to an office of distinction.
  7. To enhance; to increase; as, to raise the value of coin; to raise the price of goods.
  8. To increase in current value.
  9. To excite; to put in motion or action; as, to raise a tempest or tumult.“He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind” Psalms 107:25
  10. To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult; to stir up.
  11. To rouse; to awake; to stir up.“They shall not awake, not be raised out of their sleep” Job 14:12
  12. To increase in strength; to excite from languor or weakness.
  13. To give beginning of importance to; to elevate into reputation; as, to raise a family.
  14. To bring into being.
  15. To bring from a state of death to life.“He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification” Romans 4:25
  16. To call into view from the state of separate spirits; as, to raise a spirit by spells and incantations.
  17. To invent and propagate; to originate; to occasion; as, to raise a report or story.
  18. To set up; to excite; to begin by loud utterance; as, to raise a shout or cry.
  19. To utter loudly; to begin to sound or clamor.
  20. To utter with more strength or elevation; to swell.
  21. To collect; to obtain; to bring into a sum or fund.
  22. To levy; to collect; to bring into service; as, to raise troops; to raise an army.
  23. To give rise to.
  24. To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred or propagated; as, to raise wheat, barley, hops, etc.; to raise horses, oxen or sheep.
  25. To cause to swell, heave and become light; as, to raise dough or paste by yeast or leaven.
  26. To excite; to animate with fresh vigor; as, to raise the spirits or courage.
  27. To ordain; to appoint; or to call to and prepare; to furnish with gifts and qualification suited to a purpose; a Scriptural sense.“I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren” Deuteronomy 18:18“For this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power” Exodus 9:16
  28. To keep in remembrance. Ruth 4:5
  29. To cause to exist by propagation. Matthew 22:24
  30. To incite; to prompt. Ezra 1:5
  31. To increase in intensity or strength; as, to raise the heat of a furnace.
  32. In seamen's language, to elevate, as an object by a gradual approach to it; to bring to be seen at a greater angle; opposed to laying; as, to raise the land; to raise a point.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.