To lift
נְשָׂאStrong’s H5376nesa (ne-sa)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nesa is the Aramaic word usually translated “rising up”, “take” and “it carried away”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”
Meaning
- To lift, bear, take, carry(P'al) to take · (Ithpael) to make a rising, make an insurrection
How it's translated
- rising up 1
- take 1
- and it carried away 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 4:19And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
- Ezra 5:15And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
Aramaic dictionary
נְשָׂא nesa · to lift
1) to lift, bear, take, carry 1a) (P'al) to take 1b) (Ithpael) to make a rising, make an insurrection
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.