'Raise' in the Bible

Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Though I am Pharaoh, yet without your permission no one shall raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”

“Tell the sons of Israel to raise a contribution for Me; from every man whose heart moves him you shall raise My contribution.

This is the contribution which you are to raise from them: gold, silver and bronze,

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly help him to raise them up.

Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”

Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the court of his birth place; you are witnesses today.”

But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed always.

When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom.

Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.

The elders of his household stood beside him in order to raise him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat food with them.

Moreover, the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on.

But for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;

Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

For we are slaves; yet in our bondage our God has not forsaken us, but has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its ruins and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

But You, O Lord, be gracious to me and raise me up,That I may repay them.

Raise a song, strike the timbrel,The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

Lift up a standard on the bare hill,Raise your voice to them,Wave the hand that they may enter the doors of the nobles.

“But you said in your heart,‘I will ascend to heaven;I will raise my throne above the stars of God,And I will sit on the mount of assemblyIn the recesses of the north.

My heart cries out for Moab;His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their ruin.

They raise their voices, they shout for joy;They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the Lord.

I will camp against you encircling you,And I will set siegeworks against you,And I will raise up battle towers against you.

“He will not cry out or raise His voice,Nor make His voice heard in the street.

The Lord will go forth like a warrior,He will arouse His zeal like a man of war.He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry.He will prevail against His enemies.

Confirming the word of His servantAnd performing the purpose of His messengers.It is I who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited!’And of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built.’And I will raise up her ruins again.

He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My ServantTo raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel;I will also make You a light of the nationsSo that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

“Cry loudly, do not hold back;Raise your voice like a trumpet,And declare to My people their transgressionAnd to the house of Jacob their sins.

“Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins;You will raise up the age-old foundations;And you will be called the repairer of the breach,The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.

Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins,They will raise up the former devastations;And they will repair the ruined cities,The desolations of many generations.

“Flee for safety, O sons of Benjamin,From the midst of Jerusalem!Now blow a trumpet in TekoaAnd raise a signal over Beth-haccerem;For evil looks down from the north,And a great destruction.

I will also raise up shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord.

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,“When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch;And He will reign as king and act wiselyAnd do justice and righteousness in the land.

But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

“Raise your battle cry against her on every side!She has given herself up, her pillars have fallen,Her walls have been torn down.For this is the vengeance of the Lord:Take vengeance on her;As she has done to others, so do to her.

“The arrogant one will stumble and fallWith no one to raise him up;And I will set fire to his citiesAnd it will devour all his environs.”

Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, raise your eyes now toward the north.” So I raised my eyes toward the north, and behold, to the north of the altar gate was this idol of jealousy at the entrance.

He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you.

The king of the South will be enraged and go forth and fight with the king of the North. Then the latter will raise a great multitude, but that multitude will be given into the hand of the former.

For the king of the North will again raise a greater multitude than the former, and after an interval of some years he will press on with a great army and much equipment.

“He will revive us after two days;He will raise us up on the third day,That we may live before Him.

Those who live in his shadowWill again raise grain,And they will blossom like the vine.His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

She has fallen, she will not rise again—The virgin Israel.She lies neglected on her land;There is none to raise her up.

“For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you,O house of Israel,” declares the Lord God of hosts,“And they will afflict you from the entrance of HamathTo the brook of the Arabah.”

“In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David,And wall up its breaches;I will also raise up its ruinsAnd rebuild it as in the days of old;

This One will be our peace.When the Assyrian invades our land,When he tramples on our citadels,Then we will raise against himSeven shepherds and eight leaders of men.

For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.

asking, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.’

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife and leaves no child, his brother should marry the wife and raise up children to his brother.

Therefore bear fruits in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

and they questioned Him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should marry the wife and raise up children to his brother.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.

For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren; to Him you shall give heed to everything He says to you.

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren.’

Why is it considered incredible among you people if God does raise the dead?

Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.

Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you.

He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type.

and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.