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Make [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Structure; texture; constitution of parts in a body. It may sometimes be synonymous with shape or form, but more properly, the word signifies the manner in which the parts of a body are united; as a man of slender make or feeble make

2. Is our perfection of so frail a make

3. As every plot can undermine and shake?

4. A companion; a mate.

Make [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To tend; to proceed; to move. He made towards home. The tiger made at the sportsman. Formerly authors used to make way, to make on, to make forth, to make about; but these phrases are obsolete. We now say, to make at, to make towards.

2. To contribute; to have effect. This argument makes nothing in his favor. He believes wrong to be right, and right to be wrong, when it makes for his advantage.

3. To rise; to flow toward land; as, the tide makes fast.

4. To make as if, to show; to appear; to carry appearance.

5. Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. Joshua 8:1 .

6. To make away with, to kill; to destroy.

7. To make for, to move towards; to direct a course towards; as, we apprehended a tempest approaching, and made for a harbor.

8. To tend to advantage; to favor. A war between commercial nations makes for the interest of neutrals.

9. To make against, to tend to injury. This argument makes against his cause.

10. To make out, to succeed; to have success at last. He made out to reconcile the contending parties.

11. To make up, to approach. He made up to us with boldness.

12. To make up for, to compensate; to supply by an equivalent.

13. Have you a supply of friends to make up for those who are gone?

14. To make up with, to settle differences; to become friends.

15. To make with, to concur.

Make [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense and participle passive made.

2. To compel; to constrain.

3. They should be made to rise at an early hour.

4. To form of materials; to fashion; to mold into shape; to cause to exist in a different form, or as a distinct thing.

5. He fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. Exodus 32:1 .

6. God not only made, but created; not only made the work, but the materials.

7. To create; to cause to exist; to form from nothing. God made the materials of the earth and of all worlds.

8. To compose; to constitute as parts, materials or ingredients united in a whole. These several sums make the whole amount.

9. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,

10. MAKE but one temple for the deity.

11. To form by art.

12. And art with her contending, doth aspire

13. T'excel the natural with made delights.

14. To produce or effect, as the agent.

15. Call for Sampson, that he may make us sport. Judges 16:25 .

16. To produce, as the cause; to procure; to obtain. Good tillage is necessary to make good crops.

17. Wealth maketh many friends. Proverbs 19:1 .

18. To do; to perform; to execute; as, to make a journey; to make a long voyage.

19. To cause to have any quality, as by change or alteration. Wealth may make a man proud; beauty may make a woman vain; a due sense of human weakness should make us humble.

20. To bring into any state or condition; to constitute.

21. See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. Exodus 7:1 .

22. Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Exo 2.

23. To contract; to establish; as, to make friendship.

24. To keep; as, to make abode.

25. To raise to good fortune; to secure in riches or happiness; as when it is said, he is made for this world.

26. Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.

27. To suffer.

28. He accuses Neptune unjustly, who makes shipwreck a second time.

29. To incur; as, to make a loss. [Improper.]

30. To commit; to do.

31. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I made. [Little used.]

32. To intend or to do; to purpose to do.

33. Gomez, what mak'st thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? [Not used.]

34. We now say, what doest thou here?

35. To raise, as, profit; to gain; to collect; as, to make money in trade or by husbandry; to make an estate by steady industry.

36. To discover; to arrive in sight of; a seaman's phrase, They made the land at nine o'clock on the larboard bow, distant five leagues.

37. To reach; to arrive at; as, to make a port or harbor; a seaman's phrase.

38. To gain by advance; as, to make little way with a head wind; we made our way to the next village. This phrase often implies difficulty.

39. To provide; as, to make a dinner or entertainment.

40. To put or place; as, to make a difference between strict right and expedience.

41. To turn; to convert, as to use.

42. Whate'er they catch,

43. Their fury makes an instrument of war.

44. To represent. He is not the fool you make him, that is, as your representation exhibits him.

45. To constitute; to form. It is melancholy to think that sensual pleasure makes the happiness of a great part of mankind.

46. To induce; to cause. Self-confidence makes a man rely too much on his own strength and resources.

47. To put into a suitable or regular form for use; as, to make a bed.

48. To fabricate; to forge. He made the story himself.

49. To compose; to form and write; as, to make verses or an oration.

50. To cure; to dry and prepare for preservation; as, to make hay.

51. To make amends, to make good; to give adequate compensation; to replace the value or amount of loss.

52. To make account of, to esteem; to regard.

53. To make away, to kill; to destroy.

54. To make free with, to treat with freedom; to treat without ceremony.make good, to maintain, to defend.

55. I'll either die, or I'll make good the place.

56. To fulfill; to accomplish; as, to make good one's word, promise or engagement.

57. To make compensation for; to supply an equivalent; as, to make good a loss or damage.

58. To make light of, to consider as of no consequence; to treat with indifference or contempt.

59. They made light of it, and went their way. Matthew 22:44 .

60. To make love,

61. To make suit, to court; to attempt to gain the favor or affection.

62. To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial.

63. To make much of, to treat with fondness or esteem; to consider as of great value, or as giving great pleasure.

64. To make of, to understand. He knows not what to make of the news, that is, he does not well understand it; he knows not how to consider or view it.

65. To produce from; to effect.

66. I am astonished that those who have appeared against this paper, have made so very little of it.

67. To consider; to account; to esteem.

68. MAKE s she no more of me than of a slave?

69. To make over, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate. He made over his estate in trust or in fee.

70. To make out, to learn; to discover; to obtain a clear understanding of. I cannot make out the meaning or sense of this difficult passage. Antiquaries are not able to make out the inscription on this medal.

71. To prove; to evince; to establish by evidence or argument. The plaintiff, not being able to make out his case, withdrew the suit.

72. In the passages from divines, most of the reasonings which make out both my propositions are already suggested.

73. To furnish; to find or supply. He promised to pay, but was not able to make out the money or the whole sum.

74. To make sure of, to consider as certain.

75. To secure to one's possession; as, to make sure of the game.

76. To make up, to collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package.

77. To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel.

78. To repair; as, to make up a hedge. Ezekiel 13:18 .

79. To supply what is wanting. A dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum.

80. To compose, as ingredients or parts.

81. Oh, he was all made up of love and charms!

82. The parties among us are made up of moderate whigs and presbyterians.

83. To shape; as, to make up a mass into pills.

84. To assume a particular form of features; as, to make up a face; whence, to make up a lip, is to pout.

85. To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss.

86. To settle; to adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts.

87. To determine; to bring to a definite conclusion; as, to make up one's mind.

88. In seamen's language, to make sail, to increase the quantity of sail already extended.

89. To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost.

90. To make water, to leak.

91. To make words, to multiply words.

Make [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

2. Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.

Make [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make.

2. To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.

3. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.

4. To increase; to augment; to accrue.

5. To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

Make [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.

2. To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.

3. To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.

4. To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.

5. To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.

6. To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.

7. To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.

8. To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.

9. To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.

10. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.

11. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

12. To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.

13. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.

14. To be engaged or concerned in.

15. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.

Make-belief [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A feigning to believe; make believe.

Make-believe [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Feigned; insincere.

Make-believe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.

Make-game [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An object of ridicule; a butt.

Make-peace [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A peacemaker.

Make-up [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.

Makebate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who excites contention and quarrels.

Makebate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who excites contentions and quarrels.

Maked [Past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Made.

Makeless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Matchless; without a mate.

Makeless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Matchless.

2. Without a mate.

Makepeace [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A peace-maker; one that reconciles persons when are variance.

Maker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The Creator.

2. The universal maker we may praise.

3. One that makes, forms, shapes, or molds; a manufacturer; as a maker of watches, or of jewelry; a maker of cloth.

4. A poet.

Maker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.

2. The person who makes a promissory note.

3. One who writes verses; a poet.

Makeshift [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.

Makeweight [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight.

Makeweight [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

Composition Roget’s Thesaurus §54

N. composition, constitution, crasis, combination, inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception, embodiment, formation

V. be composed of, be made of, be formed of, be made up of, consist of, be resolved into, include, contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody, involve, implicate, drag into, compose, constitute, form, make, make up, fill up, build up, enter into the composition of

Adj. containing, constituting

Component Roget’s Thesaurus §56

N. component, component part, integral part, integrant part, element, constituent, ingredient, leaven, part and parcel, contents, appurtenance, feature, member, personnel

V. enter into, enter into the composition of, be a component, be part of, form part of, merge in, be merged in, be implicated in, share in, belong to, appertain to, combine, inhere in, unite, form, make, constitute, compose

Adj. forming, inclusive

Conversion Roget’s Thesaurus §144

N. conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation, evolution, sea change, change of state, assumption, naturalization, transportation, development, developing, conversion of currency, exchange of currency, exchange rate, bureau de change, chemistry, alchemy, progress, growth, lapse, flux, passage, transit, transition, transmigration, shifting, phase, conjugation, convertibility, crucible, alembic, caldron, retort, convert, pervert, renegade, apostate

V. be converted into, become, get, wax, come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into, turn out, lapse, shift, run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as, melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow, assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of, illapse|, begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change, convert into, resolve into, make, render, mold, form, remodel, new model, refound, reform, reorganize, assimilate to, bring to, reduce to

Adj. converted into, convertible, resolvable into, transitional, naturalized

Adv. gradually, in transitu

Production Roget’s Thesaurus §161

N. {ant. 162, 158} production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis|, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit

V. produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate|, cause, acquire

Adj. produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic

Phr. ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet

Arrival Roget’s Thesaurus §292

N. arrival, advent, landing, # debarkation, disembarkation, reception, welcome, vin d'honneur, home, goal, goalpost, landing place, landing stage, bunder, resting place, destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport, terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal, journey's end, anchorage, return, remigration, meeting, rencounter, encounter, completion, recursion

V. arrive, get to, come to, come, reach, attain, come up with, come up to, overtake, make, fetch, complete, join, rejoin, light, alight, dismount, land, go ashore, debark, disembark, put in, put into, visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent, sit down, get to one's journey's end, make the land, be in at the death, come back, get back, come home, get home, return, come in, make one's appearance, drop in, detrain, deplane, outspan, de-orbit, come to hand, come at, come across, hit, come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon, meet, encounter, rencounter, come in contact

Adj. arriving, homeward bound

Adv. here, hither

Phr. any port in a storm

Int. welcome, hail, all hail, good-day, good morrow

Completion Roget’s Thesaurus §729

N. completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment, performance, execution, despatch, dispatch, consummation, culmination, finish, conclusion, close, terminus, winding up, finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result, final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke, last finish, coup de grace, crowning of the edifice, coping-stone, keystone, missing link, superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli, elaboration, finality, completeness

V. effect, effectuate, accomplish, achieve, compass, consummate, hammer out, bring to maturity, bring to perfection, perfect, complete, elaborate, do, execute, make, go through, get through, work out, enact, bring about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head, despatch, dispatch, knock off, finish off, polish off, make short work of, dispose of, set at rest, perform, discharge, fulfill, realize, put in practice, put in force, carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution, make good, be as good as one's word, do thoroughly, not do by halves, go the whole hog, drive home, be in at the death, carry through, play out, exhaust, fill the bill, finish, bring to a close, wind up, stamp, clinch, seal, set the seal on, put the seal, give the final touch, to, put the last, put the finishing hand to, put the finishing touches on, crown, crown all, cap, ripen, culminate, come to a head, come to a crisis, come to its end, die a natural death, die of old age, run its course, run one's race, touch the goal, reach the goal, attain the goal, reach, get in the harvest

Adj. completing, final, concluding, conclusive, crowning, exhaustive, done, completed, done for, sped, wrought out, highly wrought, thorough, ripe

Adv. completely, to crown all, out of hand

Phr. the race is run, actum est, finis coronat opus, consummatum est, c'en est fait, it is all over, the game is played out, the bubble has burst, aussitot dit aussitot fait, aut non tentaris aut perfice

Compulsion Roget’s Thesaurus §744

N. compulsion, coercion, coaction, constraint, duress, enforcement, press, conscription, force, brute force, main force, physical force, the sword, ultima ratio, club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum, le droit du plus fort, martial law, restraint, necessity, force majeure, hobson's choice

V. compel, force, make, drive, coerce, constrain, enforce, necessitate, oblige, force upon, press, cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat, say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial, put down, dragoon, extort, wring from, squeeze, put on the squeeze, put on the screws, turn on the screw, drag into, bind, bind over, pin down, tie down, require, tax, put in force, commandeer, restrain

Adj. compelling, coercive, coactive, inexorable, compulsory, compulsatory, obligatory, stringent, peremptory, forcible, not to be trifled with, irresistible, compelled, fain to

Adv. by force, by force of arms, on compulsion, perforce, vi et armis, under the lash, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, forcibly, by a strong arm, under protest, in spite of one's teeth, against one's will, nolens volens, by stress of circumstances, by stress of weather, under press of, de rigueur, with a gun to one's head

Phr. i'll make him an offer he can't refuse

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1,327 KJV and 786 BSB verses contain “Make” — showing the first 20. Show all 1,594 verses (searchable)

Genesis 1:26

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

Genesis 2:18

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:21

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

Genesis 6:14

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Genesis 6:15

And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

Genesis 6:16

A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

Genesis 9:12

And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

Genesis 11:3

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Genesis 17:2

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”

Genesis 17:6

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Genesis 17:20

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 18:6

And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

Genesis 19:32

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”

Genesis 19:34

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

Genesis 21:13

And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”

Genesis 21:18

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”