Strong G1453ἐγείρω

to arise

Transliteration
egeirō
Pronunciation
eg-i'-ro
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

Probably akin to the base of G58 (through the idea of collecting one´ s faculties); to waken (transitively or intransitively) that is rouse (literally from sleep from sitting or lying from disease from death; or figuratively from obscurity inactivity ruins nonexistence): - awake lift (up) raise (again up) rear up (a-) rise (again up) stand take up.

Detailed definition

ἐγείρω, [in LXX for קוּם, etc.;] trans. (imperat. ἔγειρε used intransitively, Mat.9:5, Mrk.2:11, al.);

1. to awaken, arouse from sleep: Mrk.4:38, Act.12:7; metaphorically, of spiritual awakening, Rom.13:11 (pass.), Eph.5:14; pass., to be aroused, wake up: Mat.25:7, Mrk.4:27; ἀπὸ τ. ὕπνου, Mat.1:24.

2. Freq. in NT, to raise from the dead: νεκρούς, Jhn.5:21, Act.26:8, 2Co.1:9; ἐκ νεκρῶν, Jhn.12:1, Act.3:15, Rom.8:11, al.; pass., rise from death: Mat.11:5, Luk.7:22, Jhn.2:22, Rom.6:9, al.; ἀπὸ τ. νεκρῶν, Mat.14:2, al.

3. In late Gk.,
__(a) to raise, from sitting, lying, sickness; mid. and pass., to rise: Mat.9:5, 7 Mrk.1:31 9:27 10:49, al.; redundant, like Heb. קוּם, Mat.2:15 9:19, Rev.11:1 (see Dalman, 23f.);
__(b) to raise up, cause to appear: Act.13:22 (cf. Jdg.2:18); τέκνα, Mat.3:9; pass., to appear: Mat.11:11, Mrk.13:22, al.

4. to rouse, stir up; pass., to rise against: Mat.24:7, Mrk.13:8.

5. Of buildings, to raise: τ. ναόν, Jhn.2:19, 20 (cf. Deu.16:22, Sir.49:13); (cf. δι-, ἐξ-, συν-εγείρω, and V. Cremer, 224).
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In the Bible

Strong G1453 appears in 135 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • raise49
  • rise46
  • arise22
  • up10
  • be5
  • arose4
  • lift4
  • hath3
  • raiseth2
  • risen2
  • ariseth1
  • awake1

First verses

  1. Matthew 2:13
    And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
  2. Matthew 2:14
    When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
  3. Matthew 2:20
    Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.
  4. Matthew 2:21
    And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
  5. Matthew 3:9
    And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
  6. Matthew 8:15
    And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
  7. Matthew 8:25
    And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
  8. Matthew 8:26
    And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
  9. Matthew 9:5
    For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
  10. Matthew 9:6
    But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
  11. Matthew 9:7
    And he arose, and departed to his house.
  12. Matthew 9:19
    And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
  13. Matthew 9:25
    But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.
  14. Matthew 10:8
    Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
  15. Matthew 11:5
    The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
  16. Matthew 11:11
    Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
  17. Matthew 12:11
    And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
  18. Matthew 12:42
    The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
  19. Matthew 14:2
    And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
  20. Matthew 16:21
    From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἐγείρω,
Aeolic dialect infinitive ἐγέρρην [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 16.12, compare “Etymologicum Gudianum” 157.48)]: Epic dialect imperfect ἔγειρον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.594)]: future ἐγερῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epigrammata - PLG” 28 (compare ἐξ-, ἐπ-):)]aorist ἤγειρα, Epic dialect ἔγ- [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.44)]: perfect ἐγήγερκα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Epistulae” 16)]: pluperfect -κειν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 17.7.4, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 42.48)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 330e, etc.)]: future ἐγερθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 49.3 (also _future_ _middle_ ἐγεροῦμαι uncertain in 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 1.30.5))]: aorist ἠγέρθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.9, etc.)]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἔγερθεν variant for{ἄγ}. in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.287:)]perfect ἐγήγερμαι variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.51)]: pluperfect ἐγήγερτο [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 19:)] also, in passive sense, poetry aorist ἠγρόμην (ἐξ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 51)]; 3rd.pers. singular ἔγρετο, imperative ἔγρεο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.41, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.5)]; 2nd pers. singular subjunctive ἔγρῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 774; _optative_ ἔγροιτο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.113;)]infinitive ἐγρέσθαι (frequently written ἔγρεσθαι, as if from a present ἔγρομαι, compare ἔγρω)[Refs ([prev. work] 13.124)]; participle ἐγρόμενος [Refs 4th c.AD+ (10.50 (and late Prose, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 1.15))]: intransitive perfect ἐγρήγορα (as present) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 306, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310b)], etc.: pluperfect ἠγρηγόρη (as imperfect) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 32)]; 3rd.pers. plural ἐγρηγόρεσαν [Refs ([prev. author] “Pl.” 744)]; 3rd.pers. singular ἐγρηγόρει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.20)]: Epic dialect perfect 3rd.pers. plural ἐγρηγόρθασι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.419; _imperative_ ἐγρήγορθε (see.below 11);)]infinitive ἐγρήγορθαι[Refs ([prev. work] 67.)]
I active, awaken, rouse, ἐ. τινὰ ἐξ ὕπνου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5.413, etc.; τοὺς δ᾽.. ὑπνώοντας ἐγείρει 24.344; ἐ. τινὰ εὐνῆς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1050 \(Lyric poetry); simply, ἐ. τινά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 140, etc.: _metaphorically_, τὰς τέχνας 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.1.)]
I.2 rouse, stir up, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.208; ἐπεί μιν ἔγειρε Διὸς νόος 15.242)]; ἐγείρειν Ἄρηα stir the fight, [Refs (2.440, etc.; ἐ. μάχην, φύλοπιν, etc., 13.778, 5.496)], etc.; Τρωσὶν θυμὸν ἐ. (variant{ἀγεῖραι})[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 510; ἐ. τινὰ ἐπὶ ἔργον 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 20; ἔγειρε νῆα “hymnus ad Apollinem” 408)]; ἐκδοχὴν πομποῦ πυρὸς ἐ. wake up the bale-fire, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 299)]; λαμπάδας ἐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 340: frequently _metaphorically_, ἐ. ἀοιδάν, λύραν, μέλος, θρῆνον, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.104, “N.” 10.21, 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 222, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1778 (_anapaest meter_); μῦθον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 272d)]; τὸ οὖς ἐ. 'prick up' the ears, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.1.12.)]
I.3 raise from the dead, νεκρούς [NT (NT.Matt.10.8, cf. NT.1Cor.15.42 (_passive_))]; or from a sick-bed, [NT (NT.Jam.5.15.)]
I.4 raise, erect a building, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 103, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 64, “OGI” 677.3 (2nd c.AD))]; ναόν [NT+2nd c.AD+ (NT.John.2.19, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 10)]:—passive, στῦλος ἐγηγερμένος [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Bito Mechanicus 66.5, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 19, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Caesares” 320c.)]
II passive, with perfect active ἐγρήγορα, wake, ἐγειρομένων ἀνθρώπων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.100, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.9, etc.; ἔγρετο δ᾽ ἐξ ὕπνου 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.41: _metaphorically_, ἐγειρόμενος εἰς ἐμαυτὸν ἐκ τοῦ σώματος 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.8.1)]: in perfect, to be awake, ἐγρηγόρθασι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.419)]; ἐγρήγορθε stay awake ! [Refs (7.371, 18.299 (whereas ἔγρεο is)]wake up! [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.46))]; ἐγρήγορας ἢ καθεύδει; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310b; πόλις ζῶσα καὶ ἐγρηγορυῖα [prev. author] “Lg.” 809d; καὶ ἐφρόνει καὶ ἐγρηγόρει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.20, etc.)]; of things, ἐγειρομένου χειμῶνος arising, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.49: so _metaphorically_, τὰ ἐκ τοῦ βαρβάρου ἐγειρόμενα [prev. work] 148; ἐγρηγορὸς φρούρημα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 706; ἐ. τὸ πῆμα [prev. author] “Ag.” 346, etc.)]
II.2 rouse or stir oneself, be excited by passion, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 176, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.305: with)]infinitive, ἐγηγερμένοι ἦσαν μὴ ἀνιέναι τὰ τῶν Ἀθηναίων they were encouraged to prevent the departure of the Athenians, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.51.)]
III intransitive in active, arouse oneself, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Aesopus Fabularum Scriptor 16b.)]
IV in ἀμφὶ πυρὴν.. ἔγρετο λαός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.434, 24.789, ἔγρ. is for ἤγρ-)] (ἀγείρω); so in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Maiistas Epicus 52.)]