זָקַף
zâqaph · H2210 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to lift up
Literally: to lift up; hence: causative action by which deities cause humans to return to an upright position; associated with freedom and honor
ExamplesPsalm 145:14 The LORD supports all who fall, And raises up all who are bowed down.
Psalm 146:8 The LORD opens the eyes of those who are blind; The LORD raises up those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּפַףto be bowed down 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ כָּפַףto be bowed down 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- נָשָׂא nâsâʼ · H5375 · to become high, to be lifted up, to rise
- Common Hebrew verb for lifting or raising up, broadly overlapping with זָקַף but with wider semantic range including carrying and bearing; both can describe the action of lifting something upward.
- רוּם rûwm · H7311 · to be high, to become high, to mount up
- Hebrew verb for being high or raising up, often used for lifting something to a higher position, semantically close to זָקַף in the action of raising upward.
Contrasting words 2 words
- כָּרַע kâraʻ · H3766 · to collapse, to slump down, to kneel
- Hebrew verb for bowing down or kneeling, the postural opposite of raising up; where זָקַף describes movement to an upright position, כָּרַע describes movement to a lowered, bowed position.
- שָׁחָה shâchâh · H7812 · to tell, to inform, to impart
- Hebrew verb for bowing down or prostrating, the opposite posture to raising up; where זָקַף involves lifting to an upright stance, שָׁחָה involves lowering oneself in prostration.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἐγείρω egeírō · G1453 · to get up, to cause to stand up, to stand up
- Greek verb meaning to raise, lift up, or awaken, commonly used for raising someone from a prone to upright position or from death, semantically equivalent to זָקַף in its core sense of raising up.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Dead002001001018
- This entry carries no independent "Dead" sense of its own; its only two tagged occurrences (Psalm 145:14, Psalm 146:8) both describe raising up the bowed-down to an upright posture, not raising the dead. The domain is bundle-shared with lexemes for resurrection rather than independently attested here.
- Stance002001001061
- זָקַף occurs only twice, both describing the LORD "raising up" those who are bowed down (Psalm 145:14, Psalm 146:8) — a restoration of upright physical posture or stance, not a lexical sense of resurrection from death.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2210. zaqaph [זָקַף] verb (late) raise up (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic זְקַף, ; Assyrian…
[זָקַף] verb (late) raise up (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic זְקַף, ; Assyrian za‡âpu, AsrbHunting Inscr. IR 7, ix. A, 3; NöZMG 1886, 725 suggests Arabic carry off (†am.), originally lift up) — only
Qal Participle active and only figurative of ׳יs dealing with prostrate men: — לְכָלהַֿכְּפוּפִים וְזוֺקֵף Psa 145:14 (|| סוֺמֵךְ); כְּפוּפִים זֹקֵף Psa 146:8 ׳י raiseth up prostrate ones.
[זְקַף] verb raise, lift up (ᵑ7 Syriac; compare Biblical Hebrew (late; rare)); —
Pe`al Passive participle עֲל֑וֺהִי יִתְמְחֵא וּזְקִיף Ezr 6:11 and, lifted up, he be fastened upon it (sc, the timber erected; red. probably to impalement, see Ryle Berthol).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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