Strong's G1453
ἐγείρω(egeírō)
- Language:
- Greek (New Testament)
Definition
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)
Derivation
probably akin to the base of G58 (ἀγορά) (through the idea of collecting one's faculties);
KJV Translation
In the King James Version, ἐγείρω is translated as: awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-)rise (again, up), stand, take up.
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Greek root word in the New Testament. The Greek dictionary covers all 5,624 root words. This entry is in the public domain.