Word study

Uplifted

6 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “uplifted”. 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.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “uplifted” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • נָשָׂא nâsâlift, take, carrytranslated this way 4 times of its 642 uses · Strong’s H5375Verb  ·  Translated: bear 49, lift 45, lifted 41, carried 38Full study and all 601 verses →
  • יָד yâdhandtranslated this way 2 times of its 1,403 uses · Strong’s H3027Noun  ·  Translated: hand 664, hands 349, through 64, power 22Full study and all 1,290 verses →
  • מֹעַל môalliftingtranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H4607Noun  ·  Translated: uplifted 1

    Nehemiah 8:6 Then Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted, all the people said, “Amen, Amen!” Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

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  • מַשְׂאֵת masêthuprising, utterance, burden, portiontranslated this way 1 time of its 13 uses · Strong’s H4864Noun  ·  Translated: gift 2, tax 2, gifts 2

    Psalm 141:2 May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.

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  • תְּנוּפָה tenûphâha swinging, waving, wave-offering, offeringtranslated this way 1 time of its 30 uses · Strong’s H8573Noun  ·  Translated: wave offering 26, waved 1, wave offerings 1, uplifted 1

    Isaiah 19:16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.

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  • מַשָּׂא massâload, burden, lifting, bearing, tributetranslated this way 1 time of its 64 uses · Strong’s H4853Noun  ·  Translated: burden 35, load 7, carry 5, burdens 2

    Ezekiel 24:25 And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy — the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls — and their sons and daughters as well,

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • ὑψηλός hypsēlóshigh, loftytranslated this way 1 time of its 10 uses · Strong’s G5308Adjective  ·  Translated: high 6, prized 1, uplifted 1, arrogant 1

    Acts 13:17 The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.

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  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

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.