Midvash

ἐγείρωegeírō

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)

Greek (New Testament) · G1453

Meanings

1. to awaken, arouse from sleep: Mark 4:38, Acts 12:7; metaphorically, of spiritual awakening, Romans 13:11 (passive), Ephesians 5:14; passive, to be aroused, wake up: Matthew 25:7, Mark 4:27; ἀπὸ τ. ὕπνου, Matthew 1:24.

2. Freq. in NT, to raise from the dead: νεκρούς, John 5:21, Acts 26:8, 2 Corinthians 1:9; ἐκ νεκρῶν, John 12:1, Acts 3:15, Romans 8:11, and elsewhere; passive, rise from death: Matthew 11:5, Luke 7:22, John 2:22, Romans 6:9, and elsewhere; ἀπὸ τ. νεκρῶν, Matthew 14:2, and elsewhere

3. In late Gk.

(a) to raise, from sitting, lying, sickness; middle and passive, to rise: Matthew 9:5, Matthew 9:7, Mark 1:31, Mark 9:27, Mark 10:49, and elsewhere; redundant, like Heb. קוּם, Matthew 2:15, Matthew 9:19, Revelation 11:1

(b) to raise up, cause to appear: Acts 13:22 (cf. Judges 2:18); τέκνα, Matthew 3:9; passive, to appear: Matthew 11:11, Mark 13:22, and elsewhere

4. to rouse, stir up; passive, to rise against: Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8.

5. Of buildings, to raise: τ. ναόν, John 2:19, John 2:20 (cf. Deuteronomy 16:22, Sirach 49:13).

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 142 times in the Bible.

  • Matthew 1:24 When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife.
  • Matthew 2:13 After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
  • Matthew 2:14 That night Joseph left for Egypt with the child and Mary, his mother,
  • Matthew 2:20 “Get up!” the angel said. “Take the child and his mother back to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead.”
  • Matthew 2:21 So Joseph got up and returned to the land of Israel with Jesus and his mother.
  • Matthew 3:9 Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones.
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Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.