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Strong's G1453 · Greek

ἐγείρω

egeiro · eg-i'-ro

probably akin to the base of 58 (through the idea of collecting one's faculties); to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively, from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

ἐγείρω (G1453)

144 ἐγείρω , [in LXX for קוּם , etc. ;] trans. (imperat. ἔγειρε used intransitively, Mt 9:5 , Mk 2:11 , al.); to awaken, arouse from sleep : Mk 4:38 , Ac 12:7 ; metaph., of spiritual awakening, Ro 13:11 (pass.), Eph 5:14 ; pass., to be aroused, wake up : Mt 25:7 , Mk 4:27 ; ἀπὸ τ. ὕπνου , Mt 1:24 . Freq. in NT, to raise from the dead: νεκρούς , Jo 5:21 , Ac 26:8 , II Co 1:9 ; ἐκ νεκρῶν , Jo 12:1 , Ac 3:15 , Ro 8:11 , al.; pass., rise from death: Mt 11:5 , Lk 7:22 , Jo 2:22 , Ro 6:9 , al.; ἀπὸ τ. νεκρῶν , Mt 14:2 , al. In late Gk., to raise , from sitting, lying, sickness; mid. and pass., to rise : Mt 9:5 , 7 , Mk 1:31 9:27 10:49 , al.; redundant, like Heb. קוּם , Mt 2:15 9:19 , Re 11:1 (v. Dalman, 23f.); to raise up, cause to appear : Ac 13:22 (cf. Jg 2:18 ); τέκνα , Mt 3:9 ; pass., to appear : Mt 11:11 , Mk 13:22 , al. to rouse, stir up ; pass., to rise against: Mt 24:7 , Mk 13:8 . Of buildings, to raise : τ. ναόν , Jo 2:19 , 20 (cf . De 16:22 , Si 49:13 ); (cf. δι-, ἐξ-, ἐπ-, συν-εγείρω , and V. Cremer, 224).

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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