to rapture
2
9.9
- verb
- /ˈræp.tʃɚ/
- Literature
:
arrebatar al cielo
- These are Christians in heaven... after they have been raptured...
- raptured up to heaven
- get raptured
- going to be raptured
Examples
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Whatever edge there had been to her seemed to have been stolen away when her mother, father, and little sister had been raptured.
Fiction book (1998) -
I sometimes feel unworthy to be raptured, if that is the right word.
Blog text (24) -
Most of the Church is left behind and is not raptured.
Blog text (2) -
You being raptured is not based upon your own shortcomings.
Blog text (24) -
This is why Jesus in Revelation 2 and 3 says only the Church of Philadelphia is raptured.
Blog text (2) -
In fact, not everyone who is raptured is going to the Marriage Supper; only the true bride.
Blog text (2) -
If you're expecting to be raptured up before the tribulation, then why would you have to worry about the mark of the beast?
Blog text (2) -
Thus, we all need to get ourselves ready to be among those who will be raptured first, or else we will be like the majority of the saints who will be raptured right after the 7th Trumpet, "the Last Trumpet," and suffer through much of the Tribulation period.
Blog text (28) -
Many Christians believe that they will be raptured at the second coming of Christ.
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She prayed, hoping that she would be raptured along with the others when the time comes.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb rapture (used in Christian belief) comes from Latin rapere 'to snatch away', so the idea is of people being 'snatched up' into heaven, which is why the Rapture means being taken up to the sky.