KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun form of lift. Sense 1: To raise, bear up, or elevate physically. Sense 2: To direct upward or raise in expression, as the eyes, hands, voice, soul, prayer, or countenance. Sense 3: To exalt, restore, strengthen, or raise in condition or honour. Sense 4: To raise or wield against, as a hand, tool, weapon, or standard. Sense 5: In lift from off, to remove or take away.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Chronicles 11:20
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.
¶ And Abishai the brother of Ioab, he was chiefe of the three. For lifting vp his speare against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
And Dauid spake to the chiefe of the Leuites, to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musicke, Psalteries, and Harpes, and Cymbales, sounding, by lifting vp the voice with ioy.
And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
And Ezra blessed the LORD the great God: and al the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting vp their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD, with their faces to the ground.
When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
When men are cast downe, then thou shalt say, There is lifting vp: and he shall saue the humble person.
1611 marginal noteHeb. him that hath lowe eyes.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Let my prayer bee set foorth before thee as incense: and the lifting vp of my hands as the Euening sacrifice.
1611 marginal noteHebr. directed.
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting vp thy selfe, or if thou hast thought euill, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth.
1611 marginal noteIob.21.5. and 39.37. &c. and 40.4.
¶ For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
¶ For wickednes burneth as the fire: it shall deuoure the briers and thornes, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forrest, and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
At the noise of the tumult the people fled: at the lifting vp of thy selfe the nations were scattered.
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
I will therefore that men pray euery where, lifting vp holy handes without wrath, and doubting.
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Historical English dictionary sources
The act of lifting.
