ἐπεγείρωepegeírō
to rouse up, excite: with acc rei, διωγμόν, Acts 13:50; ψυχάς, Acts 14:2.
Greek (New Testament) · G1892
Same root
- ἐπίepí · G1909properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e. over, upon, etc.; of rest (with the dative case) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the accusative case) towards, upon, etc.
- ἐγείρωegeírō · G1453to 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)
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Acts 13:50 Then the Jews stirred up the influential religious women and the leaders of the city, and they incited a mob against Paul and Barnabas and ran them out of town.
- Acts 14:2 Some of the Jews, however, spurned God’s message and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against Paul and Barnabas.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.