Aramaic

To lift

נְטַלStrong’s H5191

netal (ne-tal)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Netal is the Aramaic word usually translated “lifted” and “it was lifted”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:”

Daniel 4:34 KJV

Meaning

To lift(P'al) to lift, lift up · (P'il) to be lifted

How it's translated

i lifted 1
and it was lifted 1

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

Where it's used most

Daniel 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 7:4In contextThe first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.

Aramaic dictionary

נְטַל netal · to lift

1) to lift 1a) (P'al) to lift, lift up 1b) (P'il) to be lifted

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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.