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Raise
King James Dictionary
or RAISE, raze. This word occurs often in the Gothic version of the gospels, Luke 3:8 . John 6:40,44 . These verbs appear to be the L. gradior, gressus, without the prefix. L. to go to walk, to pass.
1. To lift to take up to heave to lift from a low or reclining posture as, to raise a stone or weight to raise the body in bed.
The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up.
Acts 12 .
2. To set upright as, to raise a mast.
3. To set up to erect to set on its foundations and put together as, to raise the frame of a house.
4. To build as, to raise a city, a fort, a wall, &c.
I will raise forts against thee. Isaiah 29 . Amos 9 .
5. To rebuild.
They shall raise up the former desolations. Isaiah 61 .
6. To form to some height by accumulation as, to raise a heap of stones. Joshua 8 .
7. To make to produce to amass as, to raise a great estate out of small profits.
8. To enlarge to amplify.
9. To exalt to elevate in condition as, to raise one from a low estate.
10. To exalt to advance to promote in rank or honor as, to raise one to an office of distinction.
This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.
11. To enhance to increase as, to raise the value of coin to raise the price of goods.
12. To increase in current value.
the plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.
13. To excite to put in motion or action as, to raise a tempest or tumult.
He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind. Psalms 107 .
14. To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult to stir up. Acts 14 .
AEneas then employs his pains in parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains.
15. To rouse to awake to stir up.
They shall not awake, not be raised out of their sleep. Job 14 .
16. To increase in strength to excite from languor or weakness. The pulse is raised by stimulants, sometimes by venesection.
17. To give beginning of importance to to elevate into reputation as, to raise a family.
18. To bring into being.
God vouchsafes to raise another word for him.
19. To bring from a state of death to life.
He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. Romans 4 . 1 Corinthians 15 .
20. To call into view from the state of separate spirits as, to raise a spirit by spells and incantations.
21. To invent and propagate to originate to occasion as, to raise a report or story.
22. To set up to excite to begin by loud utterance as, to raise a shout or cry.
23. To utter loudly to begin to sound or clamor. He raised his voice against the measures of administration.
24. To utter with more strength or elevation to swell. Let the speaker raise his voice.
25. To collect to obtain to bring into a sum or fund. Government raises money by taxes, excise and imposts. Private persons and companies raise money for their enterprises.
26. To levy to collect to bring into service as, to raise troops to raise an army.
27. To give rise to.
28. To cause to grow to procure to be produced, bred or propagated as, to raise wheat, barley, hops, &c. to raise horses, oxen or sheep.
The English now use grow in regard to crops as, to grow wheat. This verb intransitive has never been used in New England in a transitive sense, until recently some persons have adopted it from the English books. We always use raise, but in New England it is never applied to the breeding of the human race, as it is in the southern states.
29. To cause to swell, heave and become light as, to raise dough or paste by yeast or leaven.
Miss Liddy can dance a jig and raise paste.
30. To excite to animate with fresh vigor as, to raise the spirits or courage.
31. To ordain to appoint or to call to and prepare to furnish with gifts and qualification suited to a purpose a Scriptural sense.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren. Deuteronomy 18 .
For this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power. Exodus 9 . Judges 2 .
32. To keep in remembrance. Ruth 4 .
33. To cause to exist by propagation. Matthew 22 .
34. To incite to prompt. Ezra 1 .
35. To increase in intensity or strength as, to raise the heat of a furnace.
36. In seamen's language, to elevate, as an object by a gradual approach to it to bring to be seen at a greater angle opposed to laying as, to raise the land to raise a point.
To raise a purchase, in seamen's language, is to dispose instruments or machines in such a manner as to exert any mechanical force required.
To raise a siege, is to remove a besieging army and relinquish an attempt to take the place by that mode of attack, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Raise'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/r/raise.html.
