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hoiz : The older form of "hoist" (Old English, hoise ), to raise, to lift, and is the translation of epaı́rō , "to lift up": "they ... hoised up the mainsail to the wind" ( Acts 27:40 ). the Revised Version (British and American) "and hoisting up the foresail to the wind"; Wycliff has "lefte up" Tyndale "hoysed up.»

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Hoise'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/h/hoise.html. 1915.

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