Ascend
King James Dictionary [1]
Ascend', L ascendo, from scando, to mount or climb.
1. To move upwards to mount to go up to rise, whether in air or water, or upon a material object. 2. To rise, in a figurative sense to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, &c. 3. To proceed from modern to ancient times to recur to former ages as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity. 4. In a corresponding sense, to proceed in a line towards ancestors as, to ascend to our first progenitors. 5. To rise as a star to proceed or come above the horizon. 6. In music, to rise in vocal utterance to pass from any note to one more acute.
ASCEND', To go or move upwards upon, as to ascend a hill or ladder or to climb, as to ascend a tree.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
(2): (v. t.) To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.
(3): (v. i.) To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; - opposed to descend.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Psalm 24:3 (c) This action represents the progress of the Christian as he grows in grace, godliness and usefulness.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [4]
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [5]
See Ascension
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [6]
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 ( Psalm 135:7 ), flame ( Judges 20:40 ), or smoke ( Revelation 8:4 ); (2) of travel from one place to another ( Acts 25:1 ) or of the course of a boundary ( Joshua 15:3 ); (3) of coming up from the underworld ( 1 Samuel 28:13; Revelation 11:7; Revelation 17:8 ); and (4) of the going up (of men, angels, our Lord) from earth to the skies or to heaven ( Genesis 28:12; John 3:13 ). 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 ( Exodus 19:18; Joshua 8:20 , Joshua 8:21; Psalm 135:7 parallel Jeremiah 10:13 parallel Jeremiah 51:16 ) except Judges 20:40 , but substitutes "went up," "goeth up," in New Testament ( Revelation 8:4; Revelation 14:11 ). The like change in the Old Testament passages would make the usage of the Revised Version (British and American) uniform.
