Quick Definition
I sit up
Strong's Definition
properly, to set up, i.e. (reflexively) to sit up
Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and G2523 (καθίζω);
KJV Usage: sit up
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνακαθίζω: 1 aorist ἀνεκάθισα; to raise oneself and sit upright; to sit up, sit erect: Luk_7:15 (Lachmann marginal reading WH marginal reading ἐκάθισεν); Act_9:40. (Xenophon, cyn. 5, 7, 19; Plutarch, Alex c. 14; and often in medical writings; with ἑαυτόν, Plutarch, Philop c. 20; middle in same sense, Plato, Phaedo c. 3, p. 60 b.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνακαθίζω anakathizō 2x
to set up; intrans. to sit up, Luk_7:15 ; Act_9:40
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἀνα -καθ -ίζω
( see καθίζω );
1. trans., to set up .
2. Intrans ., to sit up: Luk_7:15 ( WΗ , mg ., ἐκάθισεν ), Act_9:40 ( freq . in medical writings: MM , VGT , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνακαθίζω [page 34]
This term, common in medical writings ( Luk_7:15 Act_9:40 ), is found in a Christian letter of iv/A.D., which is full of NT echoes P Oxy VI. 939 .25 (= Selections , p. 130) ἔδοξεν . . . ἀνεκτότερον ἐσχηκέναι ἀνακαθεσ̣θ̣εῖσα , νοσηλότερον δὲ ὅμως τὸ σωμάτιον ἔχει , she seems . . . to be in a more tolerable state in that she has sat up, but nevertheless she is still in a somewhat sickly state of body. See Hobart, p. 11 f.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀνακαθίζω "to set up": Mid. "to sit up", Plat. intr. "to sit up", Xen.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀνα-καθ-ίζω
(see: καθίζω);
__1. trans., to set up.
__2. Intrans., to sit up: Luk.7:15 (WH, mg., ἐκάθισεν), Act.9:40 (frequently in medical writings: MM, VGT, see word).
† (AS)