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# זָקַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2210

**raise up** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

raise up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2210/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָקַף: vb. raise up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2210/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. (late) raise up (NH id.; Aramaic זְקַף, ܙܩܰܦ; Assyrian zaḳâpu, Asrb.Hunting Inscr. IR 7, ix. A, 3; NöZMG 1886, 725 suggests Arabic زَقَفَ carry off (Ḳam.), orig. lift up)—only Pt. act. and only fig. of י׳’s dealing with prostrate men:—וְזוֹקֵף לְכָל־הַכְּפוּפִים ψ 145:14 (‖ סוֹמךְ); זֹקֵף כְּפוּפִים 146:8 י׳ raiseth up prostrate ones.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 146:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.146.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.146.8/#tree)

יְהוָ֤ה ׀ פֹּ֘קֵ֤חַ עִוְרִ֗ים יְ֭הוָה זֹקֵ֣ף כְּפוּפִ֑ים יְ֝הוָ֗ה אֹהֵ֥ב צַדִּיקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh \[is\].opening blind.\[people\] Yahweh \[is\].raising.up \[those.who.are\].bowed.down Yahweh \[is\].loving righteous.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind; the LORD raiseth up them that are bowed down; the LORD loveth the righteous;

[Psalms 145:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.145.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.145.14/#tree)

סוֹמֵ֣ךְ יְ֭הוָה לְכָל־הַנֹּפְלִ֑ים וְ֝זוֹקֵ֗ף לְכָל־הַכְּפוּפִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].sustaining Yahweh (to) all \[those who\].fall and \[he.is\].raising.up (to) all \[those who.are\].bowed.down

*JPS 1917:* The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that are bowed down.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2210.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2210/): 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).