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BRING

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Bring is used in Scripture for many forms of carrying, sending, producing, restoring, presenting, subduing, remembering, rescuing, and bringing to maturity. Its precise meaning depends on the Hebrew or Greek verb and the context.

Definition

Bring is a broad English rendering for many actions, including carrying, sending, fetching, restoring, presenting, producing, exalting, subduing, remembering, rescuing, nurturing, and bringing to maturity. Its precise meaning depends on the underlying Hebrew or Greek verb and context.

Biblical Usage

Scripture uses the term for bringing forth life, returning people, presenting arguments, carrying up or restoring, subduing, recalling to remembrance, rescuing, enslaving, nurturing, and bringing something to maturity. The New Testament also uses it for building up and sending forward.

Historical Background

The supplied vocabulary includes numerous Hebrew and Greek verbs with distinct meanings such as sprouting, swarming, turning back, presenting, accomplishing, carrying up, touching, humbling, remembering, rescuing, abolishing, and rearing.

Historical Bible Dictionaries

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)

dasha' = "to sprout," "spring" (Ge 1:11 the King James Version); sharats = "to wriggle," "swarm" (Ge 1:20 f; 9:7; Ex 8:3); yaladh = "to bear," "beget" (Ge 3:16; 2Ki 19:3; Job 15:35; 39:1,2; "what a day may bring forth," Pr 27:1; "before the decree bring forth," Ze 2:2); `anan = "to cloud over," "to darken" (Ge 9:14); shalach = "to send on," "to escort" (Ge 18:16); shubh = "to turn back," "bring" (again, back, home again), "fetch," "establish" (Ge 24:5,6,8; Job 10:9; Ps 68:22; "bring him back to see," Ec 3:22; Zec 10:6,10); naghash = "present," "adduce" (an argument) (1Sa 13:9; 15:32; 23:9; 30:7; "bring forth your strong reasons," Isa 41:21,22); `asah = "to do," "cause to be," "accomplish" (Ps 37:5); `alah = "to carry up," "exalt," "restore" (Ge 46:4; Ex 3:8,17; 33:12; Ps 71:20; Ho 12:13); nagha` = "to touch," "lay hand upon," "reach to" (Le 5:7); kabhadh, or kabhedh = "to be heavy" (causative "to make weighty"), "to be glorious" (Pr 4:8); kana` = "to bend the knee," hence "humiliate," "bring" (down, into subjection, under), "subdue" (De 9:3; Isa 25:5); zakhar = "to mark," "call to, put (put in) remembrance" (Ps 38 title; Ps 70 title); yabhal = "to flow," "bring" (especially with pomp) (Ps 60:9; 68:29; 76:11; Ze 3:10); chul, or chil = "to writhe in pain," "to be in travail" (Isa 66:8); tsa`adh = "to step regularly," "march," "hurl" (Job 18:14); halakh = "to walk," "get" (Ho 2:14); gadhal = "bring up," "increase" (Ho 9:12).The New Testament employs telesphoreo = "to bring to maturity," "to ripen" (Lu 8:14); hupomimnesko = "to bring to mind," "suggest," "bring to remembrance" (Joh 14:26); douloo = "to enslave" (Ac 7:6); suntrophos = "brought up with" (Ac 13:1 the Revised Version (British and American), "the foster-brother of"): diasozo = "to save," "to care," "rescue" (Ac 23:24); atheteo = "to set aside" "cast off," "bring to naught" (1Co 1:19); katargeo = "to abolish," "destroy," "do away," "put away," "make void" (1Co 1:28); propempo = "to send forward," "bring forward" (1Co 16:6 the King James Version; Tit 3:13 the King James Version; 3 Joh 1:6 the King James Version); ektrepho = "to rear up to maturity," "to cherish," "nourish" (Eph 6:4 the King James Version).Frank E. Hirsch

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