Topic
Lift
19 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 40:13ISBE
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
- Genesis 40:19ISBE
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
- Genesis 40:20ISBE
¶ And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
- 2 Samuel 12:17ISBE
And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
- 2 Kings 9:32ISBE
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
- 2 Kings 25:27ISBE
¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the…
- Ezra 9:6ISBE
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
- Job 22:26ISBE
For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
- Psalms 3:3ISBE
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
- Psalms 4:6ISBE
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
- Psalms 24:7ISBE
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
- Psalms 24:9ISBE
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
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- Psalms 74:3 ISBE
- Psalms 74:5 ISBE
- Psalms 75:5 ISBE
- Psalms 89:24 ISBE
- Ecclesiastes 4:10 ISBE
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 11:13 ISBE
- Luke 21:28 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 20 references
To make lofty, to raise up. A very common word in English Versions of the Bible representing a great variety of Hebrew and Greek words, although in the Old Testament used chiefly as the translation of nasa'. Of none of these words, however, is "lift" used as a technical translation, and "lift" is interchanged freely with its synonyms, especially "exalt" (compare Ps 75:5; 89:24) and "raise" (compare Ec 4:10; 2Sa 12:17). "Lift" is still perfectly good English, but not in all the senses in which it is used in English Versions of the Bible; e.g. such phrases as "men that lifted up axes upon a thicket" (Ps 74:5), "lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins" (Ps 74:3, etc.), and even the common "lift up the eyes" or "hands" are distinctly archaic. However, almost all the uses are perfectly clear, and only the following need be noted. "To lift up the head" (Ge 40:13,19,20; 2Ki 25:27; Ps 3:3; Sirach 11:13; Lu 21:28) means to raise from a low condition (but on Ps 24:7,9 see GATE). To "lift up the horn" (Ps 75:5) is to assume a confident position, the figure being taken from fighting oxen (see HORN). "Lift up the face" may be meant literally (2Ki 9:32), or it may denote the bestowal of favor (Ps 4:6); it may mean the attitude of a righteous man toward God (Job 22:26), or simply the attitude of a suppliant (Ezr 9:6).
Burton Scott Easton
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.