ἐγείρω
egeirō
Modern Summary of Abbott-Smith’s Lexicon (1922)
The word ἐγείρω (egeirō) primarily means "to awaken" or "to arouse," such as waking someone from sleep or stirring them to action. It is also used metaphorically for spiritual awakening and, more prominently, to describe raising someone from the dead or rising from death. Additionally, it can refer to causing someone to stand up, recover from illness, or rise from a seated or lying position, as well as to the act of building or raising structures.
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)
The Greek word egeirō means "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)," encompassing related ideas including awake, lift, raise, rear up.
Lexical data derived from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. See full disclaimer
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