L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #201 Bible sense lexicon equivalence symbol

MJ. Smith

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This tip is inspired by the forum post: Something I Should Know After All These Years But Don't - Logos Forums

It is the mathematical symbol for equivalence, but in the context of Bible Sense Lexicon is best read as "conceived of as".

It's not that the two senses are equivalent (in fact, there is a sense for "to be lifted up" that is distinct), but that the sense before the ⇔ is expressed using the sense/phrase after it.

You can hopefully see this more clearly with a different sense, to die (specifically its children):

Various euphemisms ("fall asleep", "go to one's fathers") mean "to die", but are expressed with a different word. We don't want to conflate those with the sense "to die" (and lose those distinctions), but we also don't merge to merge them with the sense meaning to literally go to sleep. So it's written as "to die ⇔ lie down to sleep" meaning that the sense of the word is "to die", but it's expressed with a word or phrase that often has a different literal surface meaning.

In the OP, the word being used could have a literal sense of physically lifting something up, but in context is being used to figuratively mean "to be exalted".