Strong G305ἀναβαίνω
to ascend
- Transliteration
- anabainō
- Pronunciation
- an-ab-ah'ee-no
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
ἀναβαίνω
[in LXX chiefly for עָלָה;]
to go up, ascend,
__(a) of persons: ἐπί συκομωρέαν, Luk.19:4; εἰς τ. πλοῖον, Mrk.6:51; εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα, Mat.20:17; εἰς τ. ἱερόν, with inf. (M, Pr., 205), Luk.18:10; with mention of place of departure, Mat.3:16 (ἀπό), Act.8:39 (ἐκ);
__(b) of things, to rise, spring up, come up: a fish, Mat.17:27; smoke, Rev.8:4; plants growing, Mat.13:7; metaphorically, of things coming up in one's mind (as Heb. לֵב אֵל עָלָה; 4Ki.12:4, al.), Luk.24:38, 1Co.2:9; of prayers, Act.10:4; messages, Act.21:31 (for late exx., see MM, VGT, see word)
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for עָלָה;]
to go up, ascend,
__(a) of persons: ἐπί συκομωρέαν, Luk.19:4; εἰς τ. πλοῖον, Mrk.6:51; εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα, Mat.20:17; εἰς τ. ἱερόν, with inf. (M, Pr., 205), Luk.18:10; with mention of place of departure, Mat.3:16 (ἀπό), Act.8:39 (ἐκ);
__(b) of things, to rise, spring up, come up: a fish, Mat.17:27; smoke, Rev.8:4; plants growing, Mat.13:7; metaphorically, of things coming up in one's mind (as Heb. לֵב אֵל עָלָה; 4Ki.12:4, al.), Luk.24:38, 1Co.2:9; of prayers, Act.10:4; messages, Act.21:31 (for late exx., see MM, VGT, see word)
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G305 appears in 77 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- go35
- ascend15
- come12
- ascendeth2
- be2
- enter2
- up2
- rise2
- arise1
- arose1
- climb1
- climbeth1
First verses
- Matthew 3:16And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
- Matthew 5:1And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
- Matthew 13:7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
- Matthew 14:23And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
- Matthew 15:29And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.
- Matthew 17:27Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
- Matthew 20:17And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
- Matthew 20:18Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
- Mark 1:10And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
- Mark 3:13And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.
- Mark 4:7And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
- Mark 4:8And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
- Mark 4:32But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
- Mark 6:51And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.
- Mark 10:32And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,
- Mark 10:33Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
- Luke 2:4And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
- Luke 2:42And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
- Luke 5:19And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
- Luke 9:28And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀναβαίνω,
imperfect ἀνέβαινον: future -βήσομαι: (for aorist 1 see infr. B): aorist 2 ἀνέβην, imperative ἀνάβηθι, -βῶ, -βῆναι, -βάς: perfect -βέβηκα:— middle, aorist 1 -εβησάμην, Epic dialect 3rd.pers.singular -εβήσετο, see infr. B:—passive, see below 11.2:— go up, mount, with accusative loci, οὐρανόν, ὑπερώϊα ἀ. go up to heaven, to the upper rooms, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.497, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.302)]; φάτις ἀνθρώπους ἀναβαίνει goes up among, [Refs ([prev. work] 6.29)]; more frequently with preposition, ἀ. εἰς ἐλάτην, ἐς δίφρον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.287, 16.657)]; rarely with ἀνά repeated, ἀν᾽ ὀρσοθύρην ἀ.[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.132; after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, most. frequently with ἐπί, ἀ. ἐπὶ τὰ ὑψηλότατα τῶν ὀρέων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.131: with _dative_, νεκροῖς ἀ.)] to trample on the dead, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.493: _metaphorically_, ἐπειδὴ ἐνταῦθα ἀναβεβήκαμεν τοῦ λόγου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 445c.)]
II Special usages:
II.1 mount a ship, go on board, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] mostly absolutely; ἐς Τροίην ἀ. embark for Troy, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.210; ἀπὸ Κρήτης ἀ. 14.252; ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.44, etc.: _metaphorically_, ἀναβάσομαι στόλον)] I will mount a prow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.62.)]
II.2 mount on horse-back (compare ἀναβάτης), ἀ. ἐφ᾽ ἵππον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.7, compare 7.1.3: _absolutely_, ἀναβεβηκώς)] mounted; ἀναβάντες (absolutely) ἐφ᾽ ἵππων ἐλάσαι[Refs (3.3.27)]; ἀ. ἐπὶ τροχόν mount on the wheel of torture, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.40.)]
II.2.b with accusative, ἀ. ἵππον mount a horse, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Theopompus Historicus 2:)] —passive, [ἵππος] ὁ μήπω ἀναβαινόμενος that has not yet been mounted, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.1)]; ἀναβαθείς when mounted,[Refs ([prev. work] 3.4; ἐν ἵππῳ ἀναβεβαμένῳ [prev. author] “Eq.Mag.” 3.4, compare 1.4.)]
II.3 of land-journeys, go up from the coast into Central Asia, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.100, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.1.2; ἀ. παρὰ βασιλέα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.123b.)]
II.3.b go up to a temple, [NT (“PPar.” 47.19, NT.Luke.18.10)]; to a town, [NT+3rd c.AD+ (NT.Matt.20.18, +others, compare “PLond.” 3.1170b. 46 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]; in curses, ἀ. παρὰ Δάματρα πεπρημένος[Refs (“GDI” 3536.19 (from Cnidus), compare “SIG” 1180.9 ([prev. passage]).)]
II.3.c ascend to heaven, [Refs (“Ascens.Is.” 2.16.)]
II.4 of rivers in flood, rise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.13)]; ἀ. ἐς τὰς ἀρούρας overflow the fields, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.193.)]
II.5 of plants, shoot up, ἐπὶ δένδρα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 19.18)]; climb on sticks, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.3.2)]; generally, shoot, spring up, [NT (NT.Matt.13.7)]; of hair, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.23.)]
II.6 in Attic dialect, ἀ. ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα, or ἀ. alone, mount the tribune, rise to speak, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.66, 21.205, “Prooem.” 56)]; ἀ. εἰς τὸ πλῆθος, εἰς or ἐπὶ τὸ δικαστήριον come before the people, before the court, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 31c, 40b, “Grg.” 486b)]; ἀ. ἐπὶ τὸν ὀκρίβαντα mount the stage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Smp.” 194b: _absolutely_, ἀνάβαινε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 149; ἀνάβηθι [prev. author] “V.” 963)]; of witnesses in court, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.29.)]
II.7 of the male, mount, cover, ἀ. τὰς θηλέας[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.192, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 329; ἀ. ἐπί 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.651, compare 2nd c.AD: Moeris Grammaticus 3)]:—passive, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“Milet.” 3.31 (a).6 (6th c.BC).)]
II.8 of age, δύο ἀναβεβηκὼς ἔτη τῆς ἡλικίας τῆς ἐμῆς two years older.., Ach. Tat.1.7.
II.9 ascend to higher knowledge, ἡ ἀναβεβηκυῖα ἐπιστήμη[Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 15.34, compare 9.30; τὰ ἀναβεβηκότα)]generalities, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.5.)]
II.10 with accusative, surpass, κάλλει τὴν πᾶσαν διακόσμησιν[Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Lydus, Joannes Laurentius Historicus “de Ostentis” 22.)]
III of things and events, come to an end, turn out, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10. ; ἀπό τινος ἀ.)]result from, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 2.17.)]
III.b ἀ. ἐπὶ καρδίαν enter into one's heart, of thoughts, [LXX+NT (LXX.2Ki.12.4, LXX.Jer.3.16, NT.1Cor.2.9, cf. NT.Luke.24.38.)]
III.2 come to, pass over to, ἐς Αεωνίδην ἀνέβαινεν ἡ βασιληΐη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.205, compare 1.109.)]
IV return to the beginning, of discourse, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 144a)]; go back, ἀναβήσεται ἐπὶ τὰς κτίσεις τῶν προγόνων[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ εὑρέσεως” 2.2.)]
B aorist ἀνέβησα in causal sense, make to go up, especially put on shipboard, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.143, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.191)]; so in aorist middle, νὼ ἀναβησάμενοι having taken us on board with them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.475: rare in Prose, ἄνδρας ἐπὶ καμήλους ἀνέβησε)] he mounted men on camels, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.80.)]
imperfect ἀνέβαινον: future -βήσομαι: (for aorist 1 see infr. B): aorist 2 ἀνέβην, imperative ἀνάβηθι, -βῶ, -βῆναι, -βάς: perfect -βέβηκα:— middle, aorist 1 -εβησάμην, Epic dialect 3rd.pers.singular -εβήσετο, see infr. B:—passive, see below 11.2:— go up, mount, with accusative loci, οὐρανόν, ὑπερώϊα ἀ. go up to heaven, to the upper rooms, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.497, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.302)]; φάτις ἀνθρώπους ἀναβαίνει goes up among, [Refs ([prev. work] 6.29)]; more frequently with preposition, ἀ. εἰς ἐλάτην, ἐς δίφρον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.287, 16.657)]; rarely with ἀνά repeated, ἀν᾽ ὀρσοθύρην ἀ.[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.132; after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, most. frequently with ἐπί, ἀ. ἐπὶ τὰ ὑψηλότατα τῶν ὀρέων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.131: with _dative_, νεκροῖς ἀ.)] to trample on the dead, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.493: _metaphorically_, ἐπειδὴ ἐνταῦθα ἀναβεβήκαμεν τοῦ λόγου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 445c.)]
II Special usages:
II.1 mount a ship, go on board, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] mostly absolutely; ἐς Τροίην ἀ. embark for Troy, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.210; ἀπὸ Κρήτης ἀ. 14.252; ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.44, etc.: _metaphorically_, ἀναβάσομαι στόλον)] I will mount a prow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.62.)]
II.2 mount on horse-back (compare ἀναβάτης), ἀ. ἐφ᾽ ἵππον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.7, compare 7.1.3: _absolutely_, ἀναβεβηκώς)] mounted; ἀναβάντες (absolutely) ἐφ᾽ ἵππων ἐλάσαι[Refs (3.3.27)]; ἀ. ἐπὶ τροχόν mount on the wheel of torture, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.40.)]
II.2.b with accusative, ἀ. ἵππον mount a horse, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Theopompus Historicus 2:)] —passive, [ἵππος] ὁ μήπω ἀναβαινόμενος that has not yet been mounted, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.1)]; ἀναβαθείς when mounted,[Refs ([prev. work] 3.4; ἐν ἵππῳ ἀναβεβαμένῳ [prev. author] “Eq.Mag.” 3.4, compare 1.4.)]
II.3 of land-journeys, go up from the coast into Central Asia, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.100, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.1.2; ἀ. παρὰ βασιλέα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.123b.)]
II.3.b go up to a temple, [NT (“PPar.” 47.19, NT.Luke.18.10)]; to a town, [NT+3rd c.AD+ (NT.Matt.20.18, +others, compare “PLond.” 3.1170b. 46 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]; in curses, ἀ. παρὰ Δάματρα πεπρημένος[Refs (“GDI” 3536.19 (from Cnidus), compare “SIG” 1180.9 ([prev. passage]).)]
II.3.c ascend to heaven, [Refs (“Ascens.Is.” 2.16.)]
II.4 of rivers in flood, rise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.13)]; ἀ. ἐς τὰς ἀρούρας overflow the fields, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.193.)]
II.5 of plants, shoot up, ἐπὶ δένδρα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 19.18)]; climb on sticks, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.3.2)]; generally, shoot, spring up, [NT (NT.Matt.13.7)]; of hair, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.23.)]
II.6 in Attic dialect, ἀ. ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα, or ἀ. alone, mount the tribune, rise to speak, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.66, 21.205, “Prooem.” 56)]; ἀ. εἰς τὸ πλῆθος, εἰς or ἐπὶ τὸ δικαστήριον come before the people, before the court, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 31c, 40b, “Grg.” 486b)]; ἀ. ἐπὶ τὸν ὀκρίβαντα mount the stage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Smp.” 194b: _absolutely_, ἀνάβαινε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 149; ἀνάβηθι [prev. author] “V.” 963)]; of witnesses in court, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.29.)]
II.7 of the male, mount, cover, ἀ. τὰς θηλέας[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.192, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 329; ἀ. ἐπί 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.651, compare 2nd c.AD: Moeris Grammaticus 3)]:—passive, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“Milet.” 3.31 (a).6 (6th c.BC).)]
II.8 of age, δύο ἀναβεβηκὼς ἔτη τῆς ἡλικίας τῆς ἐμῆς two years older.., Ach. Tat.1.7.
II.9 ascend to higher knowledge, ἡ ἀναβεβηκυῖα ἐπιστήμη[Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 15.34, compare 9.30; τὰ ἀναβεβηκότα)]generalities, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.5.)]
II.10 with accusative, surpass, κάλλει τὴν πᾶσαν διακόσμησιν[Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Lydus, Joannes Laurentius Historicus “de Ostentis” 22.)]
III of things and events, come to an end, turn out, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10. ; ἀπό τινος ἀ.)]result from, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 2.17.)]
III.b ἀ. ἐπὶ καρδίαν enter into one's heart, of thoughts, [LXX+NT (LXX.2Ki.12.4, LXX.Jer.3.16, NT.1Cor.2.9, cf. NT.Luke.24.38.)]
III.2 come to, pass over to, ἐς Αεωνίδην ἀνέβαινεν ἡ βασιληΐη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.205, compare 1.109.)]
IV return to the beginning, of discourse, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 144a)]; go back, ἀναβήσεται ἐπὶ τὰς κτίσεις τῶν προγόνων[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ εὑρέσεως” 2.2.)]
B aorist ἀνέβησα in causal sense, make to go up, especially put on shipboard, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.143, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.191)]; so in aorist middle, νὼ ἀναβησάμενοι having taken us on board with them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.475: rare in Prose, ἄνδρας ἐπὶ καμήλους ἀνέβησε)] he mounted men on camels, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.80.)]