Strong's Number G1453

ἐγείρω

egeiro · eg-i'-ro

Transliteration:

egeiro{eg-i'-ro}

Word Origin:

probably akin to the base of 58 (through the idea of collecting one's faculties)

TDNT:

2:333,195

Part of Speech:

verb

Strong's 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)

Usage in the KJV:

rise 17, raise 33, arise 14, raise up 17, rise up 6, rise again 1, raise again 4, misc 10

Total: 141
Occurs 144 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

to arouse, cause to rise
1. to arouse from sleep, to awake
2. to arouse from the sleep of death, to recall the dead to life
3. to cause to rise from a seat or bed etc.
4. to raise up, produce, cause to appear
  1. to cause to appear, bring before the public
  2. to raise up, stir up, against one
  3. to raise up i.e. cause to be born
  4. of buildings, to raise up, construct, erect