Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
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James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
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ἐπαίρω
epaírō · ep-ahee'-ro
4 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
to raise up (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--exalt self, poise (lift, take) up.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 16:23Strong's last: John 4:35
Open full G1869 profile →ἐγείρω
egeírō · eg-i'-ro
1 times translated as this KJV form162 total Strong's occurrences
to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively, from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence)
Strong's KJV usage: :--awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-)rise (again, up), stand, take up.
Strong's first: Matthew 12:11Strong's last: Matthew 12:11
Open full G1453 profile →ὑψόω
hypsóō · hoop-so'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
to elevate (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--exalt, lift up.
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Strong's first: James 4:10Strong's last: James 4:10
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rûwm · room
1 times translated as this KJV form191 total Strong's occurrences
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (× a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
Strong's first: Isaiah 58:1Strong's last: Isaiah 58:1
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And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
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And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
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And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
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And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
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Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
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And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
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Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
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Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
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But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
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And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
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The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
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And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
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Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
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Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
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And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
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Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
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And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
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For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
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As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
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These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
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It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
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And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
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All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
English meaning and historical usage.
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lift
LIFT, verb transitive [We retain this sense in shoplifter. Latin levo, elevo.]
1. To raise; to elevate; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift the head.
2. To raise; to elevate mentally.
To thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Psalms 25:1.
3. To raise in fortune.
The eye of the Lord lifted up his head from misery.
4. To raise in estimation, dignity or rank. His fortune has lifted him into notice, or into office.
The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.
5. To elate; to cause to swell, as with pride. Up is often used after lift as a qualifying word; sometimes with effect or emphasis; very often, however, it is useless.
6. To bear; to support.
7. To steal, that is, to take and carry away. Hence we retain the use of shoplifter, although the verb in this sense is obsolete.
8. In Scripture, to crucify.
When ye have lifted up the Son of man. John 8:7.
1. To lift up the eyes, to look; to fix the eyes on.
Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld Jordan. Genesis 13:14.
2. To direct the desires to God in prayer. Psalms 121:1.
1. To lift up the head, to raise from a low condition; to exalt. Genesis 40:13.
2. To rejoice. Luke 21:28.
1. To lift up the hand, to swear, or to confirm by oath. Gen 14.
2. To raise the hands in prayer. Psa 28.
3. To rise in opposition to; to rebel; to assault.
2 Samuel 18:24.
4. To injure or oppress. Job 31:21.
5. To shake off sloth and engage in duty. Hebrews 6:12.
To lift up the face, to look to with confidence, cheerfulness and comfort. Job 22:26.
To lift up the face, to look to with confidence, cheerfulness and comfort. Job 22:26.
To lift up the heel against, to treat with insolence and contempt.
To lift up the horn, to behave arrogantly or scornfully. Psa 75.
To lift up the feet, to come speedily to one's relief.
Psa 74.
To lift up the voice, to cry aloud; to call out, either in grief or joy. Gen 21. Isaiah 24:14.
LIFT, verb intransitive
1. To try to raise; to exert the strength for the purpose of raising or bearing.
The body strained by lifting at a weight too heavy -
2. To practice theft. obsolete
LIFT, noun
1. The act of raising; a lifting; as the lift of the feet in walking or running.
The goat gives the fox a lift
2. An effort to raise; as, give us a lift [Popular use.]
3. That which is to be raised.
4. A dead lift an ineffectual effort to raise; or the thing which the strength is not sufficient to raise.
5. Any thing to be done which exceeds the strength; or a state of inability; as, to help one at a dead lift
6. A rise; a degree of elevation; as the lift of a lock in canals.
7. In Scottish, the sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
8. In seamen's language, a rope descending from the cap and mast-head to the extremity of a yard. Its use is to support the yard, keep it in equilibrio, and raise the end, when occasion requires.
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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