Word study
Rise
13 Hebrew and 6 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: rise, rose, rises, risen, rising. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
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How often each original word is translated “rise” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- קוּם qûmarise, stand up, standtranslated this way 104 times of its 594 uses · Strong’s H6965Verb · Translated: rise 68, got 61, set 44, Get 42Full study and all 570 verses →
Genesis 4:8 Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Exodus 2:17 And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.
- עָלָה âlâhgo up, ascend, climbtranslated this way 29 times of its 873 uses · Strong’s H5927Verb · Translated: go 118, went 107, brought 56, come 42Full study and all 807 verses →
Genesis 19:28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Exodus 19:18 Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
- זָרַח zârachrise, come forthtranslated this way 9 times of its 17 uses · Strong’s H2224Verb · Translated: rises 5, rise 2Full study and all 16 verses →
Genesis 32:31 The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
Psalm 104:22 The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.
- נָשָׂא nâsâlift, take, carrytranslated this way 9 times of its 642 uses · Strong’s H5375Verb · Translated: bear 49, lift 45, lifted 41, carried 38Full study and all 601 verses →
Psalm 7:6 Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
Ezekiel 1:19 So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.
- עָמַד âmadtake one's stand, standtranslated this way 7 times of its 508 uses · Strong’s H5975Verb · Translated: stood 99, stand 95, standing 50, stands 12Full study and all 485 verses →
1 Chronicles 21:1 Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:23 The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had finished off the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
- שָׁכַם shâkamstart, rise, earlytranslated this way 5 times of its 65 uses · Strong’s H7925Verb · Translated: got up early 13, got 11, again and again 8, get up early 5Full study and all 64 verses →
Genesis 19:2 and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
Exodus 34:4 So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.
- מִזְרָח mizrâchplace of sunrise, easttranslated this way 4 times of its 70 uses · Strong’s H4217Noun · Translated: east 46, eastward 6, toward the sunrise 5, east side 4Full study and all 67 verses →
Psalm 50:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
Isaiah 45:6 so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
- קוּם qûmarise, standtranslated this way 3 times of its 34 uses · Strong’s H6966Verb · Translated: set 10, stood 3, appointed 2, arise 2Full study and all 30 verses →
Ezra 5:2 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak rose up and began to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, helping them.
Daniel 7:24 And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings.
- רוּם rûmbe high, exalted, risetranslated this way 3 times of its 185 uses · Strong’s H7311Verb · Translated: exalted 23, exalt 18, lift 14, raised 10Full study and all 180 verses →
Isaiah 30:18 Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
Ezekiel 10:4 Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and stood over the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
- רָבָה râbâhbe, or become, much, many, greattranslated this way 2 times of its 219 uses · Strong’s H7235Verb · Translated: multiply 39, multiplied 23, many 15, much 10Full study and all 207 verses →
Genesis 7:17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Genesis 7:18 So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
- חֲבַצֶּלֶת chăbatstselethmeadow-saffrontranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H2261Noun · Translated: rose 1, like a rose 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Song of Solomon 2:1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valley.
Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
- רָמַם râmambe exaltedtranslated this way 2 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s H7426Verb · Translated: exalted 2, Get away 1, rose upward 1, wheels ascended 1Full study and all 6 verses →
Ezekiel 10:15 Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.
Ezekiel 10:19 As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.
- יָצָא yâtsâgo or come outtranslated this way 2 times of its 1,035 uses · Strong’s H3318Verb · Translated: brought 108, went 103, go 82, came 78Full study and all 975 verses →
Genesis 19:23 And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ἀνίστημι anístēmiI raise up, set up, rise fromtranslated this way 25 times of its 107 uses · Strong’s G450Verb · Translated: got 20, Get 16, rise 14, stood 11Full study and all 106 verses →
Mark 3:26 And if Satan is divided and rises against himself, he cannot stand; his end has come.
Luke 16:31 Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
- ἐγείρω egeírōI wake, arouse, raise uptranslated this way 23 times of its 144 uses · Strong’s G1453Verb · Translated: raised 53, Get 18, risen 13, got 11Full study and all 138 verses →
Matthew 11:11 Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Mark 6:14 Now King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”
- ἀναβαίνω anabaínōI go up, mount, ascendtranslated this way 6 times of its 82 uses · Strong’s G305Verb · Translated: went 27, going 8, ascended 6, go 4Full study and all 78 verses →
Revelation 8:4 And the smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, rose up before God from the hand of the angel.
Revelation 9:2 The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
- ἀνατέλλω anatéllōI make to rise, I rise, shinetranslated this way 5 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s G393Verb · Translated: rose 2, rises 2, dawned 1, causes 1Full study and all 8 verses →
Matthew 13:6 But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
Mark 4:6 But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
- ἐπανίσταμαι epanístamaiI rise up againsttranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G1881Verb · Translated: rise 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Matthew 10:21 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
Mark 13:12 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
- ἀνάστασις anástasisa rising again, resurrectiontranslated this way 2 times of its 42 uses · Strong’s G386Noun · Translated: resurrection 39, rise 2, raised to life 1Full study and all 40 verses →
Luke 2:34 Then Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary: “Behold, this Child is appointed to cause the rise and fall of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against,
Acts 26:23 that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”
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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.