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JPS Deuteronomy 32:40 For I lift up (af'n" nasa) my hand to heaven, and say: As I live for ever.

Here we see that "af'n" nasa" is used to mean actual lifting.  It also means to carry or take.

1 Kings 18:12 And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the spirit of the LORD will carry (af'n" nasa)thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me; but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.

JPS 2 Kings 2:16 And they said unto him: 'Behold now, there are with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master; lest peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken him up (af'n" nasa), and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley.' And he said: 'Ye shall not send.'

Ezekiel 8:3 And the form of a hand was put forth, and I was taken by a lock of my head; and a spirit lifted me up (af'n" nasa) between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

Ezekiel 3:12-14 Then a spirit lifted me up (af'n" nasa), and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing: 'Blessed be the glory of the LORD from His place'; also the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. So a spirit lifted me up (af'n" nasa), and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.