Aramaic word · H2211

זְקַף

uzekif

to raise

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

(P'al) to raise, lift up

Aramaic of za.qaph (זָקַף "to raise" H2210)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 6:11 וּזְקִ֖יף and [he will] be lifted up

    I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.

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