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hapahapai

1. (verb) to lift often, raise repeatedly, advocate, champion, promote.

Nā tēnei ahau tō koutou tungāne, te tangata hoki nāna i hapahapai ō koutou ingoa whakahuahua ki ngā marae, tae noa ki roto ki te Pāremata o Te Kotahitanga (TJ 12/10/1899:12). / I, your brother and cousin, am the person who repeatedly raised your names on the marae, even in the Te Kotahitanga Movement's parliament.

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Synonyms: tautīnei, whakapiki, whakatairanga, kōkiri, whakatuarā


2. (modifier) lifted, heave - used as whakahere hapahapai in the Māori Bible to refer to a 'heave offering', coming from a Hebrew root word meaning 'to lift' and refers to the offering being lifted before the altar to the Lord by the priest.

He whakahere hapahapai hoki: ka waiho e ngā tama a Iharaira hei whakahere hapahapai, he mea nō ā rātou patunga mō te pai, arā he whakahere hapahapai nā rātou ki a Ihowā (PT Ekoruhe 29:28). / For it is a heave offering: and it shall be a heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the Lord.

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