seet · lifting up; swelling

What it means

seet (שְׂאֵת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lifting up; swelling”.

Lifting up, rising; dignity. On the skin, a swelling. In Genesis 4:7 the phrase is short and difficult: "will there not be a lifting up?" may refer to lifting the face or to being accepted.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Being raised above, first place; God's greatness.
2. A swelling on the skin.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• swelling ×7
• majesty ×2
• dignity ×1
• height ×1
• lifting up ×1
• loftiness ×1
• rising ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×7
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 4:7

  If you do well, will there not be a lifting up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and toward you is its desire, but you will rule over it.”

• Genesis 49:3

  Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength and the first fruit of my vigor, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.

• Leviticus 13:2

  “When a human being has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body a leprous sore, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

• Leviticus 13:10

  The priest shall examine him, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

• Leviticus 13:19

  and there is in the place of the ulcer a white swelling or a reddish white bright spot, it shall be shown to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:28

  But if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread in the skin but it has faded, it is the swelling of the burn, and the priest shall declare him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.

• Leviticus 13:43

  The priest shall examine him, and if the swelling of the sore is reddish white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

• Leviticus 14:56

  and for a swelling, and for an eruption, and for a bright spot,

• Job 13:11

  Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall on you?

• Job 31:23

  For dread to me was the calamity of El, and because of his majesty I could not do it.

• Job 41:25

  At its rising the mighty are afraid; because of its breakings they are bewildered.

• Psalms 62:4

  Only from his height they have resolved to push him down; they delight in lies; with their mouth they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah.

• Habakkuk 1:7

  Terrible and fearsome is it; from itself its justice and its loftiness go forth.

And 1 more times.