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