Quick Definition
I raise myself, look up
Strong's Definition
to unbend, i.e. rise; figuratively, be elated
Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) (in the sense of reversal) and G2955 (κύπτω);
KJV Usage: lift up, look up
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνακύπτω: 1 aorist ἀνεκυψα; to raise or lift oneself up;
a. one's body: Luk_13:11; Joh_8:7; Joh_8:10; (Xenophon, de re equ. 7, 10, elsewhere; the Sept. Job_10:15).
b. one's soul: to be elated, exalted: Luk_21:28; (Xenophon, oec. 11, 5; Josephus, b. j. 6, 8, 5, elsewhere).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνακύπτω anakyptō 4x
pr. to raise up one s self, look up, Luk_13:11 ; Joh_8:7 ; Joh_8:10 ; met. to look up cheerily, to be cheered, Luk_21:28
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
άνα -κύπτω
[in LXX : Job_10:15 ( H5375 H7218 ), Da LXX , Su 1:35 * ;]
to lift oneself up;
(a) bodily; Luk_13:11 , Joh_8:7 ; Joh_8:10 ;
(b) mentally, to be elated: Luk_21:28 ( cf. MM , VGT , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνακύπτω [page 35]
P Par 47 .23 ff. ( c. B.C. 153) (= Selections , p. 23), a very grandiloquent but ill-spelt letter, will illustrate Luk_21:28 : οὐκ ἔστι ἀνακύψα ( l. -κύψαι ) πόποτε ἐν τῇ Τρικομίαι ὑπὸ τῆς αἰσχύνης , it is not possible ever to show face again in Tricomia for very shame. It appears also in P Ryl I. 28 .23 (iv/A.D.), on omens drawn from twitching one sort portends that the man will suffer loss for a time and will emerge again from his troubles (Ed. ἐκ τῶν κακῶν ἀνακύψει ).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀνακύπτω "to lift up the head", Hdt. ; ἀνακεκυφώς "with the head high", of a horse, Xen. "to come up out of the water, pop up", Ar. , Plat. : metaph. "to emerge", Plat.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
άνα-κύπτω
[in LXX: Job.10:15 (נָשָׂא רֹאשׁ), Dan LXX, Su 1:35 * ;]
to lift oneself up;
__(a) bodily; Luk.13:11, Jhn.8:7, 10;
__(b) mentally, to be elated: Luk.21:28 (cf. MM, VGT, see word).†
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