To lift
נָטַלStrong’s H5190natal (na-tal)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Natal is the Hebrew word usually translated “laying”, “lifts” and “lifted up them”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.”
Meaning
- To lift, bear, bear up(Qal) to lift, lift over, lift upon, set up · (Piel) to bear up
How it's translated
- laying 1
- he lifts 1
- and he lifted up them 1
- he has laid 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Lamentations 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 40:15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
- Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Lamentations 3:28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Hebrew dictionary
נָטַל natal · to lift
1) to lift, bear, bear up 1a) (Qal) to lift, lift over, lift upon, set up 1b) (Piel) to bear up Aramaic equivalent: ne.tal (נְטַל "to lift" H5191)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lift” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIFT, verb transitive
[We retain this sense in shoplifter. Latin levo, elevo.]
- To raise; to elevate; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift the head.
- To raise; to elevate mentally.“To thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul” Psalms 25:1
- To raise in fortune.
- To raise in estimation, dignity or rank.
All definitions and other forms of “lift”
- To elate; to cause to swell, as with pride.
- To bear; to support.
- To steal, that is, to take and carry away.
- In Scripture, to crucify.“When ye have lifted up the Son of man” John 8:28
- To lift up the eyes, to look; to fix the eyes on.“Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld Jordan” Genesis 13:10
- To direct the desires to God in prayer. Psalms 121:1
- To lift up the head, to raise from a low condition; to exalt. Genesis 40:13
- To rejoice. Luke 21:28
- To lift up the hand, to swear, or to confirm by oath.
- To raise the hands in prayer.
- To rise in opposition to; to rebel; to assault.
- To injure or oppress. Job 31:21
- To shake off sloth and engage in duty.
LIFT, verb intransitive
- To try to raise; to exert the strength for the purpose of raising or bearing.
- To practice theft. obsolete
LIFT, noun
- The act of raising; a lifting; as the lift of the feet in walking or running.
- An effort to raise; as, give us a lift [Popular use.]
- That which is to be raised.
- A dead lift an ineffectual effort to raise; or the thing which the strength is not sufficient to raise.
- Any thing to be done which exceeds the strength; or a state of inability; as, to help one at a dead lift
- A rise; a degree of elevation; as the lift of a lock in canals.
- In Scottish, the sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
- In seamen's language, a rope descending from the cap and mast-head to the extremity of a yard.
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.