International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Hoise

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Hoise


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hoiz: The older form of “hoist” (Old English, hoise), to raise, to lift, and is the translation of epaı́rō, “to lift up”: “they ... hoised up the mainsail to the wind” (). the Revised Version (British and American) “and hoisting up the foresail to the wind”; Wycliff has “lefte up” Tyndale “hoysed up.