Words the Bible translates as exalt
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- nasaנָשָׂאto lift or raise something up: to take it from where it rests and hold it higher
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- to carry or bear a load: to hold up what has been lifted and move it
- to bear guilt or its punishment: to carry the weight of a wrong
- to forgive: to lift guilt off a person so it no longer rests on them
- hupsoōὑψόωto lift up: to raise on high, and so to exalt someone to a high position of honor, status, or power
- rumרוּםto be high or rise up, and to lift, raise, or exalt someone or something to a higher place or status
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- to breed worms and go foul, of food that has rotted
- gadalגָּדַלto make great: to raise a child, promote a person, or exalt and praise God
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- to grow up: to increase in size or to pass from childhood toward adulthood
- to become great: to grow in wealth, power, or standing until one is important
- to magnify oneself: to boast or act arrogantly, often defiantly against God or others
- huperupsoōὑπερυψόωto exaltnot studied yet
- megalunōμεγαλύνωto declare or acknowledge someone as great: to exalt, extol, or hold in high honor, above all in praising God
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- to make something great: to enlarge or lengthen it, or to make it loom large by acting
- sagavשָׂגַבto be so high as to be out of reach: unassailably high, supremely exalted, or lifted safely beyond harm
- salalסָלַלto heap earth and stone up high: to build a raised road or ramp, or to pile something into a mound
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- to lift someone or something high: to prize it, or to set yourself up over another
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