Quick Definition
ἐγείρω v. I wake, arouse, raise up
Strong's Definition
probably akin to the base of 58 (through the idea of collecting one's faculties); 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)
KJV Usage: awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-)rise (again, up), stand, take up
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | fut. ἐγερῶ · aor. ἤγειρα · pf.pass. ἐγήγερμαι · aor.pass. ἠγέρθην · fut.pass. ἐγερθήσομαι | γρηγορέω · διαγρηγορέω · διεγείρω · ἔγερσις · ἐξεγείρω · ἐπεγείρω · συνεγείρω
17.10 · Stances and Events Related to Stances · Stand
to get up, to cause to stand up to cause to stand up, with a possible implication of some previous incapacity
17.9 · Stances and Events Related to Stances · Stand
to get up, to stand up to get up, normally from a lying or reclining position but possibly from a seated position (in some contexts with the implication of some degree of previous incapacity)
MAT 8:15 · MAT 8:26 · MAT 9:5 · MAT 9:6 · MAT 9:7 · MAT 9:19 · MAT 17:7 · MAT 25:7 · MAT 26:46 · MRK 2:9 · MRK 2:11 · MRK 2:12 · MRK 3:3 · MRK 5:41 · MRK 10:49 · MRK 14:42 · LUK 5:23 · LUK 5:24 · LUK 6:8 · LUK 11:8 · LUK 11:31 · LUK 13:25 · JHN 5:8 · JHN 11:29 · JHN 13:4 · JHN 14:31 · ACT 9:8 · REV 11:1
23.77 · Physiological Processes and States · Sleep, Waking
to cause to wake up, to awaken someone, to wake up someone to cause someone to awaken
13.83 · Be, Become, Exist, Happen · Exist
to cause to exist, to provide, to raise up to cause to come into existence
MAT 3:9 · MAT 11:11 · MAT 24:11 · MAT 24:24 · MRK 13:22 · LUK 1:69 · LUK 3:8 · LUK 7:16 · JHN 7:52 · ACT 13:22 · PHP 1:17
23.94 · Physiological Processes and States · Live, Die
to raise to life, to make live again to cause someone to live again after having once died In some languages it may be important to indicate in MAT 28:6 who is the agent, and one may therefore translate ‘he is not here; God has caused him to live again.’
MAT 9:25 · MAT 10:8 · MAT 11:5 · MAT 14:2 · MAT 16:21 · MAT 17:9 · MAT 17:23 · MAT 20:19 · MAT 26:32 · MAT 27:52 · MAT 27:63 · MAT 27:64 · MAT 28:6 · MAT 28:7 · MRK 6:14 · MRK 6:16 · MRK 12:26 · MRK 14:28 · MRK 16:6 · MRK 16:14 · LUK 7:14 · LUK 7:22 · LUK 8:54 · LUK 9:7 · LUK 9:22 · LUK 20:37 · LUK 24:6 · LUK 24:34 · JHN 2:22 · JHN 5:21 · JHN 12:1 · JHN 12:9 · JHN 12:17 · JHN 21:14 · ACT 3:15 · ACT 4:10 · ACT 5:30 · ACT 10:40 · ACT 13:30 · ACT 13:37 · ACT 26:8 · ROM 4:24 · ROM 4:25 · ROM 6:4 · ROM 6:9 · ROM 7:4 · ROM 8:11 · ROM 8:11 · ROM 8:34 · ROM 10:9 · 1CO 6:14 · 1CO 15:4 · 1CO 15:12 · 1CO 15:13 · 1CO 15:14 · 1CO 15:15 · 1CO 15:15 · 1CO 15:15 · 1CO 15:16 · 1CO 15:16 · 1CO 15:17 · 1CO 15:20 · 1CO 15:29 · 1CO 15:32 · 1CO 15:35 · 1CO 15:42 · 1CO 15:43 · 1CO 15:43 · 1CO 15:44 · 1CO 15:52 · 2CO 1:9 · 2CO 4:14 · 2CO 4:14 · 2CO 5:15 · GAL 1:1 · EPH 1:20 · EPH 5:14 · COL 2:12 · 1TH 1:10 · 2TI 2:8 · HEB 11:19 · 1PE 1:21
13.65 · Be, Become, Exist, Happen · Change of State
to restore, to cause again to be, restoration to change to a previous good state
23.140 · Physiological Processes and States · Health, Vigor, Strength
to restore to health, to heal (a figurative extension of meaning of ἐγείρω[a] ‘to cause to stand up,’ 17.10) to restore a person to health and vigor (somewhat equivalent to the English idiom to get him on his feet again)
23.74 · (ἐγείρομαι[b]) · Physiological Processes and States · Sleep, Waking
to wake up, to become awake to become awake after sleeping The context of this clause in ROM 13:11 is figurative, and it may be necessary in some languages to translate ‘now it is time for you to be alert to what is happening.’
MAT 1:24 · MAT 2:13 · MAT 2:14 · MAT 2:20 · MAT 2:21 · MRK 4:27 · ROM 13:11
1 MAT 12:11 It is possible that ἐγείρω in MAT 12:11 should be understood only in the sense of ‘to lift up.’
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐγείρω egeirō 144x
to excite, arouse, awaken, Mt. 8:25; mid. to awake, Mt. 2:13, 20, 21; met. mid. to rouse one’s self to a better course of conduct, Rom. 13:11; Eph. 5:14; to raise from the dead, Jn. 12:1; and mid. to rise from the dead, Mt. 27:52; Jn. 5:21; met. to raise as it were from the dead, 2 Cor. 4:14; to raise up, cause to rise up from a prone posture, Acts 3:7; and mid. to rise up, Mt. 17:7; to restore to health, Jas. 5:15; met. et seq. ἐπή, to excite to war; mid. to rise up against, Mt. 24:7; to raise up again, rebuild, Jn. 2:19, 20; to raise up from a lower place, to draw up or out of a ditch, Mt. 12:10; from Hebrew, to raise up, to cause to arise or exist, Acts 13:22, 23; mid. to arise, exist, appear, Mt. 3:9; 11:11
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐγείρω, [in LXX for קוּם, etc. ;] trans. (imperat. ἔγειρε used intransitively, Mt 9:5, Mk 2:11, al.);
to awaken, arouse from sleep: Mk 4:38, Ac 12:7; metaph., of spiritual awakening, Ro 13:11 (pass.), Eph 5:14; pass., to be aroused, wake up: Mt 25:7, Mk 4:27; ἀπὸ τ. ὕπνου, Mt 1:24.
Freq. in NT, to raise from the dead: νεκρούς, Jo 5:21, Ac 26:8, II Co 1:9; ἐκ νεκρῶν, Jo 12:1, Ac 3:15, Ro 8:11, al.; pass., rise from death: Mt 11:5, Lk 7:22, Jo 2:22, Ro 6:9, al.; ἀπὸ τ. νεκρῶν, Mt 14:2, al.
In late Gk., to raise, from sitting, lying, sickness; mid. and pass., to rise: Mt 9:5, 7, Mk 1:31 9:27 10:49, al.; redundant, like Heb. קוּם, Mt 2:15 9:19, Re 11:1 (v. Dalman, 23f.);
to raise up, cause to appear: Ac 13:22 (cf. Jg 2:18); τέκνα, Mt 3:9; pass., to appear: Mt 11:11, Mk 13:22, al.
to rouse, stir up; pass., to rise against: Mt 24:7, Mk 13:8.
Of buildings, to raise: τ. ναόν, Jo 2:19, 20 (cf . De 16:22, Si 49:13); (cf. δι-, ἐξ-, ἐπ-, συν-εγείρω, and V. Cremer, 224).
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐγείρω. OGTS 6778 (early ii/A.D.) οἱ ἐγείραντες τὴν οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ πυλῶνος. With the use of the verb in Mk 138 and parallels, Boll (Offenéarung, p. 131) compares Catal. VII. p. 51 f. 72 ἐγερθήσονται κατὰ τῆς βασιλείας, but notes that it is “ zweiter Hand.” An interesting example of the word is found in the much-discussed Logion of Jesus No. 5 (P Oxy I. 1) ἔγειίρ]ον τὸν λίθο(ν) κἀκεῖ εὑρήσεις pe. For possible references to this saying in the Glossaries, see a note by Reitzenstein in ZVT7V’ vi. p. 203. von
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐγείρω (egeirō) — to arise. ἐγείρω, Aeolic dialect infinitive ἐγέρρην [Refs 7th c.BC+]: Epic dialect imperfect ἔγειρον [Refs 8th c.BC+]: future ἐγερῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἤγειρα, Epic dialect ἔγ- [Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect ἐγήγερκα [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: pluperfect -κειν [Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ἐγερθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἠγέρθην [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἔγερθεν variant for{ἄγ}. in [Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect ἐγήγερμαι variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐγήγερτο [Refs 2nd c.AD+] also, in passive sense, poetry aorist ἠγρόμην (ἐξ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. singular ἔγρετο, imperative ἔγρεο, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; 2nd pers. singular subjunctive ἔγρῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive ἐγρέσθαι (frequently written ἔγρεσθαι, as if from a present ἔγρομαι, compare ἔγρω)[Refs]; participle ἐγρόμενος [Refs 4th c.AD+]: intransitive perfect ἐγρήγορα (as present) [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.: pluperfect ἠγρηγόρη (as imperfect) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural ἐγρηγόρεσαν [Refs]; 3rd.pers. singular ἐγρηγόρει [Refs 5th c.BC+]: Epic dialect perfect 3rd.pers. plural ἐγρηγόρθασι [Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive ἐγρήγορθαι[Refs]
I. active, awaken, rouse, ἐ. τινὰ ἐξ ὕπνου [Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.2. rouse, stir up, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐγείρειν Ἄρηα stir the fight, [Refs], etc.; Τρωσὶν θυμὸν ἐ. (variant{ἀγεῖραι})[Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκδοχὴν πομποῦ πυρὸς ἐ. wake up the bale-fire, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; λαμπάδας ἐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ οὖς ἐ. 'prick up' the ears, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
I.3. raise from the dead, νεκρούς [NT]; or from a sick-bed, [NT]
I.4. raise, erect a building, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ναόν [NT+2nd c.AD+]:—passive, στῦλος ἐγηγερμένος [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
II. passive, with perfect active ἐγρήγορα, wake, ἐγειρομένων ἀνθρώπων [Refs 8th c.BC+]: in perfect, to be awake, ἐγρηγόρθασι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐγρήγορθε stay awake ! [Refs]wake up! [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐγρήγορας ἢ καθεύδει; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of things, ἐγειρομένου χειμῶνος arising, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. rouse or stir oneself, be excited by passion, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive, ἐγηγερμένοι ἦσαν μὴ ἀνιέναι τὰ τῶν Ἀθηναίων they were encouraged to prevent the departure of the Athenians, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. intransitive in active, arouse oneself, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV. in ἀμφὶ πυρὴν.. ἔγρετο λαός [Refs 8th c.BC+] (ἀγείρω); so in [Refs 3rd c.BC+]