Genesis 37:25
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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Carry
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1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
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22 verses
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נָשָׂא
nâsâʼ · naw-saw'
14 times translated as this KJV form647 total Strong's occurrences
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Strong's KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable ( man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, × needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, swear, take (away, up), × utterly, wear, yield.
Strong's first: Genesis 44:1Strong's last: Isaiah 40:11
Open full H5375 profile →בּוֹא
bôwʼ · bo
7 times translated as this KJV form2,568 total Strong's occurrences
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Strong's KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, × be, befall, besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, × certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, × doubtless again, eat, employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, have, × indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, × (well) stricken (in age), × surely, take (in), way.
Strong's first: Genesis 42:19Strong's last: Daniel 11:8
Open full H935 profile →יָלַךְ
yâlak · yaw-lak'
3 times translated as this KJV form1,045 total Strong's occurrences
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Strong's KJV usage: × again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, pursue, cause to run, spread, take away (-journey), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, × be weak.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 17:27Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 10:20
Open full H3212 profile →סָבַל
çâbal · saw-bal'
3 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to carry (literally or figuratively), or (reflexively) be burdensome; specifically, to be gravid
Strong's KJV usage: bear, be a burden, carry, strong to labour.
Strong's first: Isaiah 46:4Strong's last: Isaiah 46:7
Open full H5445 profile →ἐκφέρω
ekphérō · ek-fer'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to bear out (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bear, bring forth, carry forth (out).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 5:9Strong's last: 1 Timothy 6:7
Open full G1627 profile →יָצָא
yâtsâʼ · yaw-tsaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form1,075 total Strong's occurrences
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Strong's KJV usage: × after, appear, × assuredly, bear out, × begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, × scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, × still, × surely, take forth (out), at any time, × to (and fro), utter.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:38Strong's last: Jeremiah 39:14
Open full H3318 profile →αἴρω
aírō · ah'-ee-ro
1 times translated as this KJV form111 total Strong's occurrences
to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism (compare H5375) to expiate sin
Strong's KJV usage: :--away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 5:10Strong's last: John 5:10
Open full G142 profile →βαστάζω
bastázō · bas-tad'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
to lift, literally or figuratively (endure, declare, sustain, receive, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bear, carry, take up.
Strong's first: Luke 10:4Strong's last: Luke 10:4
Open full G941 profile →διαφέρω
diaphérō · dee-af-er'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
to bear through, i.e. (literally) transport; usually to bear apart, i.e. (objectively) to toss about (figuratively, report); subjectively, to "differ", or (by implication) surpass
Strong's KJV usage: :--be better, carry, differ from, drive up and down, be (more) excellent, make matter, publish, be of more value.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 11:16Strong's last: Mark 11:16
Open full G1308 profile →μετοικίζω
metoikízō · met-oy-kid'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to transfer as a settler or captive, i.e colonize or exile
Strong's KJV usage: :--carry away, remove into.
Strong's first: Acts 7:43Strong's last: Acts 7:43
Open full G3351 profile →φέρω
phérō · fer'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences
to "bear" or carry (in a very wide application, literally and figuratively, as follows)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be, bear, bring (forth), carry, come, + let her drive, be driven, endure, go on, lay, lead, move, reach, rushing, uphold.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 21:18Strong's last: John 21:18
Open full G5342 profile →יָבַל
yâbal · yaw-bal'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to flow; causatively, to bring (especially with pomp)
Strong's KJV usage: bring (forth), carry, lead (forth).
Strong's first: Isaiah 23:7Strong's last: Isaiah 23:7
Open full H2986 profile →יְבַל
yᵉbal · yeb-al'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to bring
Strong's KJV usage: bring, carry.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 7:15Strong's last: Ezra 7:15
Open full H2987 profile →נְחַת
nᵉchath · nekh-ath'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to descend; causatively, to bring away, deposit, depose
Strong's KJV usage: carry, come down, depose, lay up, place.
Strong's first: Ezra 5:15Strong's last: Ezra 5:15
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no direct Strong's tag
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
H935
If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
no direct Strong's tag
And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
no direct Strong's tag
And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
H5375
And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
H5375
And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
H5375
And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
H5375
But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
no direct Strong's tag
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
no direct Strong's tag
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
no direct Strong's tag
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
no direct Strong's tag
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
no direct Strong's tag
And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
no direct Strong's tag
Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
no direct Strong's tag
And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
no direct Strong's tag
And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
H5375
And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
no direct Strong's tag
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
no direct Strong's tag
And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
H5375
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
no direct Strong's tag
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
H5375
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
H3318
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
no direct Strong's tag
And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
H935
And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
English meaning and historical usage.
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carry
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. In general, it implies a moving from the speaker or the place present or near, to a place more distant, and so is opposed to bring and fetch, and it is often followed by from, away, off, out.
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.
Whose wills will carry it over the rest.
4. To bear out; to face through.
If a man carries it off, there is so much money saved.
5. To urge, impel, lead or draw, noting moral impulse.
Pride or passion will carry a man to great lengths.
Men are carried away with imaginary prospects. See Ephesians 4:14. Hebrews 13:9.
6. To bear; to have.
In some vegetables, we see something that carries a kind of analogy to sense.
7. To bear; to show, display or exhibit to view.
The aspect of every one in the family carries satisfaction.
8. To imply or import.
To quit former tenets carries an imputation of ignorance.
9. To contain or comprise.
He thought it carried something of argument in it, to prove that doctrine.
10. 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.
11. To extend in space, as to carry a line or a boundary; or in a moral sense, as to carry ideas very far.
12. To support or sustain.
CARRY camomile on sticks.
13. To bear or produce, as trees.
Set them a reasonable depth, and they will carry more shoots upon the stem.
14. To manage or transact, usually with on; as, to carry on business.
15. To carry ones self, to behave, conduct or demean.
He carried himself insolently. Sometimes with it; as, he carried it high.
16. To remove, lead or drive.
And he carried away all his cattle. Genesis 31:1.
17. To remove; to cause to go.
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel to Assyria. 2 Kings 18:11.
18. To transport; to affect with extraordinary impressions on the mind. Revelation 17:1.
19. To fetch and bring.
Young whelps learn easily to carry
20. To transfer; as, to carry an account to the ledger.
War was to be diverted from Greece by being carried into Asia.
To carry coals, to bear injuries.
To carry off, to remove to a distance; also, to kill, as to be carried off by sickness.
To carry on,
1. to promote, advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design; to carry on the administration of grace.
2. To manage or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry.
3. To prosecute, continue or pursue; as, to carry on trade or war.
To carry through, to support to the end; to sustain or keep from failing, or being subdued.
Grace will carry a man through all difficulties. Hammond.
To carry out, to bear from within; also, to sustain to the end; to continue to the end.
To carry away, in seamanship, is to break; to carry sail till a spar breaks; as, to carry away a fore-topmast.
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. When a horse holds his head high, with an arching neck, he is said to carry well. When he lowers his head too much, he is said to carry low.
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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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