Definition

to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• 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

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.