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To exalt

מִתְנַשֵּׂאStrong’s H5375

mitnasse (mit-nas-se)

Appears in 614 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Mitnasse is the Hebrew word usually translated “lifted up”, “lift up” and “carry”. It appears in 614 verses of the Old Testament.

“Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.”
Daniel 1:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Hithpael) one who exalts himself
  2. To lift, bear up, carry, take(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) · (Hithpael) to lift oneself up, exalt oneself · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
  • and he lifted up 35
  • lift up 32
  • to carry 19
  • bearers of 19
  • carrying 14
  • and they lifted up 13
  • bearer of 12
  • and i lifted up 11

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

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 68
  • Isaiah 57
  • Numbers 44
  • Psalms 44
  • Genesis 42
  • Exodus 32

37 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 614 verses, by book
Ecclesiastes 2
5:155:19
Song of Solomon 1
5:7
Lamentations 5
2:193:273:414:165:13
Joel 1
2:22
Jonah 2
1:121:15
Nahum 1
1:5
Habakkuk 3
1:32:63:10
Haggai 2
2:122:19
Malachi 4
1:81:92:32:9
Hebrew dictionary

מִתְנַשֵּׂא mitnasse · to exalt

(Hithpael) one who exalts himself A grammatical form of na.sa (נָשָׂא ": raise" H5375)

נָשָׂא nasa · to lift

: raise/take_up 1) to lift, bear up, carry, take 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lift, lift up 1a2) to bear, carry, support, sustain, endure 1a3) to take, take away, carry off, forgive 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be lifted up, be exalted 1b2) to lift oneself up, rise up 1b3) to be borne, be carried 1b4) to be taken away, be carried off, be swept away 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to lift up, exalt, support, aid, assist 1c2) to desire, long (fig.) 1c3) to carry, bear continuously 1c4) to take, take away 1d) (Hithpael) to lift oneself up, exalt oneself 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to cause one to bear (iniquity) …

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

CARRY, verb transitive

  1. To bear, convey, or transport, by sustaining and moving the thing carried, either by bodily strength, upon a beast, in a vehicle, or in any kind of water-craft.“He shall carry the lambs in his bosom” Isaiah 40:11“When he dieth, he shall carry nothing away” Psalms 49:17
  2. To convey; as sound is carried in the air.
  3. To effect; to accomplish; to prevail; to gain the object; as, to carry a point, measure, or resolution; to carry a prize; to carry a fortified town by force of arms; sometimes followed by it.
  4. To bear out; to face through.
All definitions and other forms of “carry”
  1. To urge, impel, lead or draw, noting moral impulse.
  2. To bear; to have.
  3. To bear; to show, display or exhibit to view.
  4. To imply or import.
  5. To contain or comprise.
  6. To extend or continue in time, as to carry a historical account to the first ages of the world; but usually with a particle, as to carry up or carry back, to carry forward.
  7. To extend in space, as to carry a line or a boundary; or in a moral sense, as to carry ideas very far.
  8. To support or sustain.
  9. To bear or produce, as trees.
  10. To manage or transact, usually with on; as, to carry on business.
  11. To carry ones self, to behave, conduct or demean.
  12. To remove, lead or drive.“And he carried away all his cattle” Genesis 31:18
  13. To remove; to cause to go.“And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel to Assyria” 2 Kings 18:11
  14. To transport; to affect with extraordinary impressions on the mind.
  15. To fetch and bring.
  16. To transfer; as, to carry an account to the ledger.
  17. to promote, advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design; to carry on the administration of grace.
  18. To manage or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry.
  19. To prosecute, continue or pursue; as, to carry on trade or war.

CARRY, verb intransitive

  1. To run on rotten ground, or on frost, which sticks to the feet, as a hare.
  2. To bear the head in a particular manner, as a horse.
  3. To convey; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well; but this is elliptical.

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.