STRONGS NUMBER H2210


Word Summary
zaqaph: to raise up
Original Word: זָקַף
Transliteration: 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 וְזוֺקֵףPsalm 145:14 ("" סוֺמֵךְ‎); כְּפוּפִים זֹקֵף146:8 ׳יraiseth up prostrate ones.

[זְקַף‎] verb raise, lift up (ᵑ7‎ Syriac; compare Biblical Hebrew (late; rare)); —

Pe`al Passive participle עֲל֑וֺהִי יִתְמְחֵא וּזְקִיףEzra 6:11 and, lifted up, he be fastened upon it (sc, the timber erected; red. probably to impalement, see Ryle Berthol).