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a-send´: By derivation the English word implies motion from a lower place to (not merely toward) a higher one; and usage tends to restrict it to cases where the beholder is in the lower, not the higher, position. the King James Version uses it 39 times in all: (1) of the going up of vapor (), flame (), or smoke (); (2) of travel from one place to another () or of the course of a boundary (); (3) of coming up from the underworld (; ; ); and (4) of the going up (of men, angels, our Lord) from earth to the skies or to heaven (; ). the Revised Version (British and American) uses the appropriate form of “to go up†in all cases falling under (2) and (3); in those under (4) it retains “ascend†with an occasional change in tense; under (1) it retains “ascend†everywhere in Old Testament (; , ; parallel parallel ) except , but substitutes “went up,†“goeth up,†in New Testament (; ). The like change in the Old Testament passages would make the usage of the Revised Version (British and American) uniform.