Elevation
שְׂאֵתStrong’s H7613seet (se-et)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Seet is the Hebrew word usually translated “swelling”, “swelling of” and “lifting up”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”
Meaning
- Elevation, exaltation, dignity, swelling, uprisingdignity, exaltation, loftiness · swelling · uprising
How it's translated
- a swelling 3
- swelling of 2
- lifting up 1
- dignity 1
- in the swelling 1
- and to swelling 1
- majesty his 1
- and from majesty his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 6
- Job 3
- Genesis 2
- Psalms 1
- Habakkuk 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 49:3Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
- Leviticus 13:2When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
- Leviticus 13:10And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
- Leviticus 13:19And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;
- Leviticus 13:28And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning.
- Leviticus 13:43Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂאֵת seet · elevation
1) elevation, exaltation, dignity, swelling, uprising 1a) dignity, exaltation, loftiness 1b) swelling 1c) uprising
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “elevation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ELEVA'TION, noun
[Latin elevatio.]
The act of raising or conveying from a lower or deeper place to a higher.
- The act of exalting in rank, degree or condition; as the elevation of a man to a throne.
- Exaltation; an elevated state; dignity.
- Exaltation of mind by more noble conceptions; as elevation of mind, of thoughts, of ideas.
- Exaltation of style; lofty expressions; words and phrases expressive of lofty conceptions.
All definitions
- Exaltation of character or manners.
- Attention to objects above us; a raising of the mind to superior objects.
- An elevated place or station.
- Elevated ground; a rising ground; a hill or mountain.
- A passing of the voice from any note to one more acute; also, a swelling or augmentation of voice.
- In astronomy, altitude; the distance of a heavenly body above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon.
- In gunnery, the angle which the chace of a cannon or mortar, or the axis of the hollow cylinder, makes with the plane of the horizon.
- In dialling, the angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
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.