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Bible Dictionaries
Lift
King James Dictionary
or LIFT, We retain this sense in shoplifter. L. levo, elevo.
1. To raise to elevate as, to lift the foot or the hand to lift the head.
2. To raise to elevate mentally.
To thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Psalms 25 .
3. To raise in fortune.
The eye of the Lord lifted up his head from misery.
4. To raise in estimation, dignity or rank. His fortune has lifted him into notice, or into office.
The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.
5. To elate to cause to swell, as with pride. Up is often used after lift, as a qualifying word sometimes with effect or emphasis very often, however, it is useless.
6. To bear to support.
7. To steal, that is, to take and carry away. Hence we retain the use of shoplifter, although the verb in this sense is obsolete.
8. In Scripture, to crucify.
When ye have lifted up the Son of man. John 8 .
1. To lift up the eyes, to look to fix the eyes on.
Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld Jordan. Genesis 13 .
2. To direct the desires to God in prayer. Psalms 121 .
1. To lift up the head, to raise from a low condition to exalt. Genesis 40 .
2. To rejoice. Luke 21 .
1. To lift up the hand, to swear, or to confirm by oath. Genesis 14 .
2. To raise the hands in prayer. Psalms 28 .
3. To rise in opposition to to rebel to assault.
2 Samuel 18 .
4. To injure or oppress. Job 31 .
5. To shake off sloth and engage in duty. Hebrews 41 .
To lift up the face, to look to with confidence, cheerfulness and comfort. Job 22 .
To lift up the face, to look to with confidence, cheerfulness and comfort. Job 22 .
To lift up the heel against, to treat with insolence and contempt.
To lift up the horn, to behave arrogantly or scornfully. Psalms 75 .
To lift up the feet, to come speedily to one's relief.
Psalms 74 .
To lift up the voice, to cry aloud to call out, either in grief or joy. Genesis 21 . Isaiah 24 .
LIFT,
1. To try to raise to exert the strength for the purpose of raising or bearing.
The body strained by lifting at a weight too heavy -
2. To practice theft. Obs.
LIFT, n.
1. The act of raising a lifting as the lift of the feet in walking or running.
The goat gives the fox a lift.
2. An effort to raise as, give us a lift. Popular use.
3. That which is to be raised.
4. A dead lift, an ineffectual effort to raise or the thing which the strength is not sufficient to raise.
5. Any thing to be done which exceeds the strength or a state of inability as, to help one at a dead lift.
6. A rise a degree of elevation as the lift of a lock in canals.
7. In Scottish, the sky the atmosphere the firmament.
8. In seamen's language, a rope descending from the cap and mast-head to the extremity of a yard. Its use is to support the yard, keep it in equilibrio, and raise the end, when occasion requires.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Lift'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/lift.html.
