To lift
עָמַסStrong’s H6006amas (a-mas)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amas is the Hebrew word usually translated “loaded”, “carrying” and “carries a load”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”
Meaning
- To load, carry, carry a load(Qal) · (Hiphil) to lay a load on
How it's translated
- he loaded 2
- and he loaded 1
- carrying 1
- and loaded 1
- he carries a load 1
- carried 1
- who have been carried 1
- carry it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 2
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 44:13Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
- 1 Kings 12:11And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- 2 Chronicles 10:11For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- Nehemiah 4:17They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
- Nehemiah 13:15In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
- Psalms 68:19Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
Hebrew dictionary
עָמַס amas · to lift
1) to load, carry, carry a load 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to load 1a2) to carry a load 1b)(Hiphil) to lay a load on
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.