Lexical Summary zaqaph: to raise up Original Word: זָקַףTransliteration: zaqaph Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-kaf') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to raise up Meaning: to life, comfort Strong's Concordance raise up A primitive root; to life, i.e. (figuratively) comfort -- raise (up). Brown-Driver-Briggs H2210. zaqaph [זָקַף] verb (late) raise up (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic זְקַף, ; Assyrian za‡âpu, AsrbHunting Inscr. IR 7, ix. A, 3; NöZMG 1886, 725 suggests Arabic carry off (†am.), originally lift up) — only Qal Participle active and only figurative of ׳יs dealing with prostrate men: — לְכָלהַֿכְּפוּפִים וְזוֺקֵף Psalm 145:14 ("" סוֺמֵךְ); כְּפוּפִים זֹקֵף 146:8 ׳י raiseth up prostrate ones. [זְקַף] verb raise, lift up (ᵑ7 Syriac; compare Biblical Hebrew (late; rare)); — Pe`al Passive participle עֲל֑וֺהִי יִתְמְחֵא וּזְקִיף Ezra 6:11 and, lifted up, he be fastened upon it (sc, the timber erected; red. probably to impalement, see Ryle Berthol). |
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