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title: זְקַף — raise · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: זְקַף (lemma:זְקַף), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: raise. BDB 1906: vb. raise, lift up. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זְקַף

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«זְקַף» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **raise** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:זְקַף · **BDB:** זְקַף

### Glosses

\[he.will\].be.lifted.up (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

raise [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e3/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. raise, lift up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e3/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. raise, lift up (𝔗 Syriac; cf. BH (late; rare));— Pt. pass. וּזְקִיף יִתְמְחֵא עֲל֑וֹהִי Ezr 6:11 and, lifted up, he be fastened upon it (sc. the timber erected; ref. prob. to impalement, v. Ryle Berthol).

### Jastrow 1903

זְקַף: to put up, rear, erect, raise Part. pass to stand erect to hang up hanged to elevate Pe to be erect, to rise to be hanged [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e3/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** to put up, rear, erect, raise (arms, head \&c.). Targ. Gen. XXXI, 45. Targ. Y. Ex. XVII, 11 זָקֵיף; a. fr.—Bets. 22ᵃ ז׳ לה לשרגא he put the lamp up. M. Kat. 25ᵃ זַקְפֵיה לארוניה he set his coffin upright.—Part. pass. זְקִיף q. v. to stand erect. Targ. Job XXIX, 8. Ib. XXIV, 24 זקופו Ms. (ed. אוריכו) stand undiscouraged (wait). to hang up. Targ. I Chr. X, 10; a. e.—Part. pass. זְקִיף hanged. B. Mets. 59ᵇ, v. דְּיוּקְתָּא. to elevate, Targ. Ps. XXX, 2 (Regia Pe.; h. text דלה). to be erect, to rise. Targ. Gen. XXXVII, 7. Targ. Ps. XXI, 14; a. e. to be hanged. Meg. 16ᵇ אִזְדַּקִּיפוּ, v. זְקִיפָא II.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זְקַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e3/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 6:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.11/)

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וּמִנִּי֮ שִׂ֣ים טְעֵם֒ דִּ֣י כָל־אֱנָ֗שׁ דִּ֤י יְהַשְׁנֵא֙ פִּתְגָמָ֣א דְנָ֔ה יִתְנְסַ֥ח אָע֙ מִן־בַּיְתֵ֔הּ וּזְקִ֖יף יִתְמְחֵ֣א עֲלֹ֑הִי וּבַיְתֵ֛הּ נְוָל֥וּ יִתְעֲבֵ֖ד עַל־דְּנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and from me it.is.made a.decree (diy).that every person who he.will.violate the command this let.it.be.pulled.away a.beam from house his and \[he.will\].be.lifted.up let.him.be.impaled on it and house his a.refuse-heap let.it.be.made on this

*JPS 1917:* Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this;

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