Definition

to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• arise (up)
• (cause to) ascend up
• at once
• break (the day) (up)
• bring (up)
• (cause to) burn
• carry up
• cast up
• shew
• climb (up)
• (cause to
• make to) come (up)
• cut off
• dawn
• depart
• exalt
• excel
• fall
• fetch up
• get up
• (make to) go (away
• up); grow (over) increase
• lay
• leap
• levy
• lift (self) up
• light
• (make) up
• mention
• mount up
• offer
• make to pay
• perfect
• prefer
• put (on)
• raise
• recover
• restore
• (make to) rise (up)
• scale
• set (up)
• shoot forth (up)
• (begin to) spring (up)
• stir up
• take away (up)
• work

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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