zarach (to rise) · Rightly

Meaning

To rise, come forth, break out, arise, rise up, shine(Qal)

How it's translated

it rises 3
and it will rise 2
and it rose 1
it has risen 1
and he dawned 1
when rises 1
it dawns 1
it shone 1

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

Where it's used most

Isaiah 3
Psalms 2
Genesis 1
Exodus 1
Deuteronomy 1
Judges 1

14 books in all.

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Exodus 22:3If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Deuteronomy 33:2And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Judges 9:33And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.
2 Samuel 23:4And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
2 Kings 3:22And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
2 Chronicles 26:19Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.

All 17 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 32:31
Exodus 1: 22:3
Deuteronomy 1: 33:2
Judges 1: 9:33
2 Samuel 1: 23:4
2 Kings 1: 3:22
2 Chronicles 1: 26:19
Job 1: 9:7
Psalms 2: 104:22 112:4
Ecclesiastes 1: 1:5
Isaiah 3: 58:10 60:1 60:2
Jonah 1: 4:8
Nahum 1: 3:17
Malachi 1: 4:2

Hebrew dictionary

זָרַח zarach · to rise

1) to rise, come forth, break out, arise, rise up, shine 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to rise 1a2) to come out, appear

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

RISE, verb intransitive

rize. preterit tense rose; participle passive risen; pronoun rose, rizn. [See Raise.]

To move to pass upward in any manner; to ascend; as, a fog rises from a river or from low ground; a fish rises in water; fowls rise in the air; clouds rise from the horizon towards the meridian; a balloon rises above the clouds.
To get up; to leave the place of sleep or rest; as, to rise from bed.
To get up or move from any recumbent to an erect posture; as, to rise after a fall.
To get up from a seat; to leave a sitting posture; as, to rise from a sofa or chair.

All definitions and other forms of “rise”

To spring; to grow; as a plant; hence, to be high or tall.
To swell in quantity or extent; to be more elevated; as, a river rises after a rain.
To break forth; to appear; as, a boil rises on the skin.
To appear above the horizon; to shine; as, the sun or a star rises.“He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good” Matthew 5:45
To begin to exist; to originate; to come into being or notice.
To be excited; to begin to move or act; as, the wind rose at 12 o'clock.
To increase in violence.
To appear in view; as, to rise up to the reader's view.
To appear in sight; also, to appear more elevated; as in sailing towards a shore, the land rises.
To change a station; to leave a place; as, to rise from a siege.
To spring; to be excited or produced.
To gain elevation in rank, fortune or public estimation; to be promoted.“When the wicked rise men hide themselves” Proverbs 28:28
To break forth into public commotions; to make open opposition to government; or to assemble and oppose government; or to assemble in arms for attacking another nation.
To be excited or roused into action.“RISE up to the battle” Jeremiah 49:14
To make a hostile attack; as when a man riseth against his neighbor.
To increase; to swell; to grow more or greater.
To be improved; to recover from depression; as, a family may rise after misfortune to opulence and splendor.
To elevate the style or manner; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence.
To be revived from death.“The dead in Christ shall rise first” 1 Thessalonians 4:16
To come by chance.
To ascend; to be elevated above the level or surface; as, the ground rises gradually one hundred yards.
To proceed from.“A scepter shall rise out of Israel” Numbers 24:17
To have its sources in.
To be moved, roused, excited, kindled or inflamed, as passion.
To ascend in the diatonic scale; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
To amount.
To close a session.

RISE, noun

rise

The act of rising, either in a literal or figurative sense; ascent; as the rise of vapor in the air; the rise of mercury in the barometer; the rise of water in a river.
The act of springing or mounting from the ground; as the rise of the feet in leaping.
Ascent; elevation, or degree of ascent; as the rise of a hill or mountain.
Spring; source; origin; as the rise of a stream in a mountain.
Any place elevated above the common level; as a rise of land.
Appearance above the horizon; as the rise of the sun or a star.
Increase; advance; as a rise in the price of wheat.
Advance in rank, honor, property or fame.
Increase of sound on the same key; a swelling of the voice.
Elevation or ascent of the voice in the diatonic scale; as a rise of a tone or semitone.
Increase; augmentation.
A bough or branch. [Not in use.]

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