Bible Dictionary
HOISE
Hoise is an older form of “hoist,” meaning to raise or lift. Acts uses it of raising a ship’s sail to the wind.
Definition
Hoise is an older form of “hoist,” meaning to raise or lift. It is an archaic English term preserved in older Bible translation language.
Biblical Usage
Acts 27:40 uses the word for raising a ship’s sail to the wind. The Revised Version renders the action as hoisting up the foresail.
Historical Background
The word comes from older English usage. Wycliffe translated the action as “lifted up,” while Tyndale used “hoysed up.”
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>hoiz: The older form of "hoist" (Old English, hoise), to raise, to lift, and is the translation of epairo, "to lift up": "they .... hoised up the mainsail to the wind" (Ac 27:40). the Revised Version (British and American) "and hoisting up the foresail to the wind"; Wycliff has "lefte up" Tyndale "hoysed up."</p>