{"id":7737,"date":"2024-01-17T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/delisahargrove\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2024-01-17T07:42:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:42:03","slug":"1-nephi-104-raise-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/delisahargrove\/2024\/01\/1-nephi-104-raise-up\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Nephi 10:4 | Raise Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
As I\u2019ve begun reading the Book of Mormon again this year, I decided to pause on verses that I usually gloss over while reading \u2014 verses that seem really obvious and plain \u2014 to see what new insight I could glean from them.\u00a0\u00a0While reading 1 Nephi 10:4<\/a>, I paused on the phrase raise up.<\/em><\/p>\n
Yea, even\u00a0six hundred<\/span>\u00a0years from the time that my father left Jerusalem, a\u00a0prophet<\/span>\u00a0would the Lord God raise up among the\u00a0Jews<\/span>\u2014even a\u00a0Messiah<\/span>, or, in other words, a Savior of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While thinking about various meanings of\u00a0raise,<\/em><\/a> I clicked to the 1828 Webster\u2019s Dictionary<\/a> to find some meanings of the word in Joseph Smith\u2019s time that I might not know or realize.\u00a0 This exercise really breathes new life into a verse I\u2019ve read many times. Obviously, not every definition applies, but applying definitions in a new way often expands my thoughts and understanding on the verse.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here is the 1828 Webster\u2019s Dictionary listing for raise.\u00a0<\/em>Do any of the definitions change your reading of 1 Nephi 10:4? How?<\/p>\n
RAISE<\/strong>,\u00a0verb transitive<\/em>\u00a0raze. [This word occurs often in the Gothic version of the gospels,\u00a0Luke 3:8<\/a>.\u00a0John 6:40<\/a>, 44. These verbs appear to be the Latin gradior, gressus, without the prefix. Latin to go to walk, to pass.]\n<\/p>
1.<\/strong>\u00a0To lift; to take up; to heave; to lift from a low or reclining posture; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a stone or weight; to\u00a0raise<\/em> the body in bed.<\/p>\n
The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up.\u00a0Acts 12:7<\/a>.<\/p>\n
2.<\/strong>\u00a0To set upright; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a mast.<\/p>\n
3.<\/strong>\u00a0To set up; to erect; to set on its foundations and put together; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0the frame of a house.<\/p>\n
4.<\/strong>\u00a0To build; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a city, a fort, a wall, etc.<\/p>\n
I will\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0forts against thee.\u00a0Isaiah 29:3<\/a>.\u00a0Amos 9:11<\/a>.<\/p>\n
5.<\/strong>\u00a0To rebuild.<\/p>\n
They shall\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0up the former desolations.\u00a0Isaiah 61:4<\/a>.<\/p>\n
6.<\/strong>\u00a0To form to some height by accumulation; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a heap of stones.\u00a0Joshua 8:29<\/a>.<\/p>\n
7.<\/strong>\u00a0To make; to produce; to amass; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a great estate out of small profits.<\/p>\n
8.<\/strong>\u00a0To enlarge; to amplify.<\/p>\n
9.<\/strong>\u00a0To exalt; to elevate in condition; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0one from a low estate.<\/p>\n
10.<\/strong>\u00a0To exalt; to advance; to promote in rank or honor; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0one to an office of distinction.<\/p>\n
This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.<\/p>\n
11.<\/strong>\u00a0To enhance; to increase; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0the value of coin; to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0the price of goods.<\/p>\n
12.<\/strong>\u00a0To increase in current value.<\/p>\n
the plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.<\/p>\n
13.<\/strong>\u00a0To excite; to put in motion or action; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a tempest or tumult.<\/p>\n
He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind.\u00a0Psalms 107:1<\/a>.<\/p>\n
14.<\/strong>\u00a0To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult; to stir up.\u00a0Acts 24:5<\/a>.<\/p>\n
AEneas then employs his pains in parts remote to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0the Tuscan swains.<\/p>\n
15.<\/strong>\u00a0To rouse; to awake; to stir up.<\/p>\n
They shall not awake, not be raised out of their sleep.\u00a0Job 14:12<\/a>.<\/p>\n
16.<\/strong>\u00a0To increase in strength; to excite from languor or weakness. The pulse is raised by stimulants, sometimes by venesection.<\/p>\n
17.<\/strong>\u00a0To give beginning of importance to; to elevate into reputation; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a family.<\/p>\n
18.<\/strong>\u00a0To bring into being.<\/p>\n
God vouchsafes to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0another word for him.<\/p>\n
19.<\/strong>\u00a0To bring from a state of death to life.<\/p>\n
He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification.\u00a0Romans 4:24<\/a>.\u00a01 Corinthians 15:15<\/a>.<\/p>\n
20.<\/strong>\u00a0To call into view from the state of separate spirits; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a spirit by spells and incantations.<\/p>\n
21.<\/strong>\u00a0To invent and propagate; to originate; to occasion; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a report or story.<\/p>\n
22.<\/strong>\u00a0To set up; to excite; to begin by loud utterance; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a shout or cry.<\/p>\n
23.<\/strong>\u00a0To utter loudly; to begin to sound or clamor. He raised his voice against the measures of administration.<\/p>\n
24.<\/strong>\u00a0To utter with more strength or elevation; to swell. Let the speaker\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0his voice.<\/p>\n
25.<\/strong>\u00a0To collect; to obtain; to bring into a sum or fund. Government raises money by taxes, excise and imposts. Private persons and companies\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0money for their enterprises.<\/p>\n
26.<\/strong>\u00a0To levy; to collect; to bring into service; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0troops; to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0an army.<\/p>\n
27.<\/strong>\u00a0To give rise to.<\/p>\n
28.<\/strong>\u00a0To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred or propagated; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0wheat, barley, hops, etc.; to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0horses, oxen or sheep.<\/p>\n[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\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0but in New England it is never applied to the breeding of the human race, as it is in the southern states.]\n
29.<\/strong>\u00a0To cause to swell, heave and become light; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0dough or paste by yeast or leaven.<\/p>\n
Miss Liddy can dance a jig and\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0paste.<\/p>\n
30.<\/strong>\u00a0To excite; to animate with fresh vigor; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0the spirits or courage.<\/p>\n
31.<\/strong>\u00a0To ordain; to appoint; or to call to and prepare; to furnish with gifts and qualification suited to a purpose; a Scriptural sense.<\/p>\n
I will\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0them up a prophet from among their brethren.\u00a0Deuteronomy 18:15<\/a>.<\/p>\n
For this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power.\u00a0Exodus 9:16<\/a>.\u00a0Judges 2:16<\/a>.<\/p>\n
32.<\/strong>\u00a0To keep in remembrance.\u00a0Ruth 4:5<\/a>.<\/p>\n
33.<\/strong>\u00a0To cause to exist by propagation.\u00a0Matthew 22:24<\/a>.<\/p>\n
34.<\/strong>\u00a0To incite; to prompt.\u00a0Ezra 1:5<\/a>.<\/p>\n
35.<\/strong>\u00a0To increase in intensity or strength; as, to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0the heat of a furnace.<\/p>\n
36.<\/strong>\u00a0In seamen\u2019s 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\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0the land; to\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a point.<\/p>\n
To\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a purchase, in seamen\u2019s language, is to dispose instruments or machines in such a manner as to exert any mechanical force required.<\/p>\n
To\u00a0raise<\/em>\u00a0a 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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