ἀνίστημιanístēmi
to stand up (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive)
Greek (New Testament) · G450
Meanings
1. causal, in future and 1 aorist act., with accusative, to raise up: Acts 9:41; from death, John 6:39, Acts 2:32; to raise up, cause to be born or appear: Matthew 22:24, Acts 3:22, Acts 3:26.
2. Intrans., in middle and 2 aor act.
(a) to rise: from lying, Mark 1:35; from sitting, Luke 4:16; to leave a place, Matthew 9:9; pleonastically, as Heb. קוּם, before verbs of going, Mark 10:1, and elsewhere; of the dead, Matthew 17:23, Mark 8:31; followed by ἐκ νεκρῶν, Matthew 17:9, Mark 9:9
(b) to arise, appear: Acts 5:36, Romans 15:12.
Synonyms
ἐγείρω.
Same root
- ἀνάaná · G303properly, up; but (by extension) used (distributively) severally, or (locally) at (etc.)
- ἵστημιhístēmi · G2476to stand (transitively or intransitively), used in various applications (literally or figuratively)
- ἐπανίσταμαιepanístamai · G1881to stand up on, i.e. (figuratively) to attack
- ἀναστατόωanastatóō · G387properly, to drive out of home, i.e. (by implication) to disturb (literally or figuratively)
- ἀνάστασιςanástasis · G386a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, genitive case or by implication, (its author)), or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth)
- ἐξανίστημιexanístēmi · G1817objectively, to produce, i.e. (figuratively) beget; subjectively, to arise, i.e. (figuratively) object
Where it appears
Appears 107 times in the Bible.
- Matthew 9:9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him.
- Matthew 12:41 “The people of Nineveh will stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for they repented of their sins at the preaching of Jonah. Now someone greater than Jonah is here—but you refuse to repent.
- Matthew 22:24 “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without children, his brother should marry the widow and have a child who will carry on the brother’s name.’
- Matthew 26:62 Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Well, aren’t you going to answer these charges? What do you have to say for yourself?”
- Mark 1:35 Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray.
- Mark 2:14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him.
See every passage
- Matthew 9:9, 12:41, 22:24, 26:62
- Mark 1:35, 2:14, 3:26, 5:42, 7:24, 8:31, 9:9, 9:10, 9:27, 9:31, 10:1, 10:34, 12:23, 12:25, 14:57, 14:60
- Luke 1:39, 4:16, 4:29, 4:38, 4:39, 5:25, 5:28, 6:8, 8:55, 9:8, 9:19, 10:25, 11:7, 11:8, 11:32, 15:18, 15:20, 16:31, 17:19, 18:33, 22:45, 22:46, 23:1, 24:7, 24:12, 24:33, 24:46
- John 6:39, 6:40, 6:44, 6:54, 11:23, 11:24, 11:31, 20:9
- Acts 1:15, 2:24, 2:32, 3:22, 3:26, 5:6, 5:17, 5:34, 5:36, 5:37, 6:9, 7:18, 7:37, 8:26, 8:27, 9:6, 9:11, 9:18, 9:34, 9:39, 9:40, 9:41, 10:13, 10:20, 10:23, 10:26, 10:41, 11:7, 11:28, 12:7, 13:16, 13:33, 13:34, 14:10, 14:20, 15:7, 17:3, 17:31, 20:30, 22:10, 22:16, 23:9, 26:16, 26:30
- Romans 15:12
- 1 Corinthians 10:7
- Ephesians 5:14
- 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 4:16
- Hebrews 7:11, 7:15
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.