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arise

Meaning of “arise”

1. To rise, stand, get up, or move upward from a lower, lying, seated, fallen, or inactive position. 2. To begin, emerge, appear, come into being, or come forward. 3. To take action, intervene, or undertake the stated work. 4. To rise from death; to return to life.

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149 occurrences147 verses36 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 13:17

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Jonah 1:2
arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jonah 1:2 · retained source text

Arise, goe to Nineueh that great citie, and cry against it: for their wickednes is come vp before me.

1611 marginal noteGene. 10.11-12. Cha. 3.3.

Jonah 1:6
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jonah 1:6 · retained source text

So the shipmaster came to him, and said vnto him; What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call vpon thy God, if so be that God wil thinke vpon vs, that we perish not.

Jonah 3:2
arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jonah 3:2 · retained source text

Arise, goe vnto Nineueh that great citie, and preach vnto it the preaching that I bid thee.

Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jonah 4:8 · retained source text

And it came to passe when the Sunne did arise, that God prepared a vehement East wind; and the Sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that hee fainted, and wished in himselfe to die, and said, It is better for me to die, then to liue.

1611 marginal noteOr, silent.

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