זְקַף
to raise
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Stem
- Qal Passive
- An archaic passive of the Qal, preserved in a few forms.
Form
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2211 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, זקף (zᵉqaph) means “to raise.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Its uses cluster heavily in Ezra (100% of all occurrences). Its lone occurrence is Ezra 6:11. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2211 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Being set up 1×
- American Standard Version: Let him be lifted up 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Raised up 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Being erect 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2211 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2211 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2211 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2211 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Peal) to raise, lift up
Word origin
[ זְקַף ] vb. raise, lift up;— Pe. Ezr 6:11
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זקף (zâqaph) (H2210) — to raise up.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זָקַף
- (b. h.)
- 1. to join, put together, put up, erect, restore (to proper position). Bets. II, 6 אין זוֹקְפִין וכ׳ you must not set up (put together the links of) a lamp on a Holy Day (v. ib. 22ᵃ). M. Kat. 27ᵃ מאימתי זוֹקְפִין וכ׳ from what time on the eve of the Sabbath are the mourners’ couches put up again? Ab. Zar. 46ᵃ ז׳ לבינה וכ׳ if one put a brick up to worship it, v. זְקִיפָה; a. fr.—Part. pass. זָקוּף, f. זְקוּפָה. M. Kat. III, 7 מטה ז׳ a put-up couch, opp. מ׳ כפויה an upset couch whereon mourners are seated; a. fr.
- 2. (cmp. לָוָה a. Lat. nexus) to establish a loan, to obligate, enjoin upon (with על). B. Mets. 72ᵃ וזְקָפָן עליו במלוה and the creditor settles the interests on the debtor as a loan (the note stating the combined amount of principle and interest as principle). Gitt. 18ᵃ עד שתפגום ותִזְקוֹף until she accepts partial payment (of her widowhood) and settles the balance as a loan (by taking a note &c.). Ib. זָקְפָה ולא פגמה if she allows her widowhood to be entered as a loan without taking a partial payment. Ib. אונס … שזְקָפָן במלוה indemnity for outrage, fines … which were settled in the way of a loan; a. e.
- 3. (neut. verb) to stand upright, to be restored again. B. Mets. 59ᵇ לא נפלו … ולא זָקְפוּ the bent walls did not fall, nor did they assume their straight position. Ber. 11ᵃ וז׳ ר׳ ישמ׳ R. Y. remained upright, opp. הִטָּה. Ib. כשאני … אתה זָקַפְתָּ when I bowed, thou didst remain upright. Y. ib. IV, beg. 7ᵃ זוֹקֵף he erects himself (from his bowed position).—Part. pass. זָקוּף, f. זְקוּפָה upright, erect. Ber. l. c.—קומה זקופה erect stature, proud carriage. Ib. 43ᵇ; a. fr.
- 1. to be put up, to erect one’s self. Tosef. ib. I, 6; Sifré Deut. 34; a. e.
- 2. to be converted into a loan. Gitt. l. c. מאימתי נִזְקָפִים במלוה from what time are fines &c. considered as converted loans (so as to be subject to limitation)?
זְקַף
- 1. 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.
- 2. to stand erect. Targ. Job XXIX, 8. Ib. XXIV, 24 זקופו Ms. (ed. אוריכו) stand undiscouraged (wait).
- 3. 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).
- 1. to be erect, to rise. Targ. Gen. XXXVII, 7. Targ. Ps. XXI, 14; a. e.
- 2. to be hanged. Meg. 16ᵇ אִזְדַּקִּיפוּ, v. זְקִיפָא II.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
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