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To raise

זְקַףStrong’s H2211

zeqaph (ze-qaph)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Zeqaph is the Aramaic word usually translated “lifted up”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.”
Ezra 6:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. (P'al) to raise, lift up
How it's translated
  • and be lifted up 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Ezra 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    זְקַף zeqaph · to raise

    (P'al) to raise, lift up Aramaic of za.qaph (זָקַף "to raise" H2210)

    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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.