Dictionary entry

Bring

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

dasha' = "to sprout," "spring" (Ge 1:11the King James Version); sharats = "to wriggle," "swarm" (Ge 1:20f; 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 38title;Ps 70title); 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 13:1the 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 16:6the King James Version;Tit 3:13the King James Version;3 Joh 1:6the King James Version); ektrepho = "to rear up to maturity," "to cherish," "nourish" (Eph 6:4the King James Version).

Frank E. Hirsch