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# זְקַף

Biblical Aramaic

**raise** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

raise [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְקַף: vb. raise, lift up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. raise, lift up (𝔗 Syriac; cf. BH (late; rare));— Pt. pass. וּזְקִיף יִתְמְחֵא עֲל֑וֹהִי Ezr 6:11 and, lifted up, he be fastened upon it (sc. the timber erected; ref. prob. to impalement, v. Ryle Berthol).

### Jastrow 1903

זְקַף: to put up, rear, erect, raise Part. pass to stand erect to hang up hanged to elevate Pe to be erect, to rise to be hanged [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e3/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** to put up, rear, erect, raise (arms, head &c.). Targ. Gen. XXXI, 45. Targ. Y. Ex. XVII, 11 זָקֵיף; a. fr.—Bets. 22ᵃ ז׳ לה לשרגא he put the lamp up. M. Kat. 25ᵃ זַקְפֵיה לארוניה he set his coffin upright.—Part. pass. זְקִיף q. v. to stand erect. Targ. Job XXIX, 8. Ib. XXIV, 24 זקופו Ms. (ed. אוריכו) stand undiscouraged (wait). to hang up. Targ. I Chr. X, 10; a. e.—Part. pass. זְקִיף hanged. B. Mets. 59ᵇ, v. דְּיוּקְתָּא. to elevate, Targ. Ps. XXX, 2 (Regia Pe.; h. text דלה). to be erect, to rise. Targ. Gen. XXXVII, 7. Targ. Ps. XXI, 14; a. e. to be hanged. Meg. 16ᵇ אִזְדַּקִּיפוּ, v. זְקִיפָא II.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[he will\] be lifted up (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.11/#tree)

וּמִנִּי֮ שִׂ֣ים טְעֵם֒ דִּ֣י כָל־אֱנָ֗שׁ דִּ֤י יְהַשְׁנֵא֙ פִּתְגָמָ֣א דְנָ֔ה יִתְנְסַ֥ח אָע֙ מִן־בַּיְתֵ֔הּ וּזְקִ֖יף יִתְמְחֵ֣א עֲלֹ֑הִי וּבַיְתֵ֛הּ נְוָל֥וּ יִתְעֲבֵ֖ד עַל־דְּנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and from me it.is.made a.decree (diy).that every person who he.will.violate the command this let.it.be.pulled.away a.beam from house his and \[he.will\].be.lifted.up let.him.be.impaled on it and house his a.refuse-heap let.it.be.made on this

*JPS 1917:* Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e3/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).