Quick Definition
ἀνάστασις, εως, ἡ n.f. a rising again, resurrection
Strong's Definition
from 450; a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, genitive case or by implication, (its author)), or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth)
KJV Usage: raised to life again, resurrection, rise from the dead, that should rise, rising again
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -εως | ἵστημι
23.93 · Physiological Processes and States · Live, Die
to come back to life, to live again, to be resurrected, resurrection to come back to life after having once died In a number of languages there is a difficulty involved in formulating some expression for ‘resurrection’ or ‘living again,’ since such a phrase may refer to what is technically known as metempsychosis, that is to say, the rebirth of the soul in another existence, a belief which is widely held in a number of areas of south Asia. This problem may be avoided in some languages by speaking of ‘his body will live again’ or ‘his body will come back to life’ or ‘he will be the same person when he lives again.’
One may also translate ‘there is no resurrection’ as ‘people will not live again.’
MAT 22:23 · MAT 22:28 · MAT 22:30 · MAT 22:31 · MRK 12:18 · MRK 12:23 · LUK 14:14 · LUK 20:27 · LUK 20:33 · LUK 20:35 · LUK 20:36 · JHN 5:29 · JHN 5:29 · JHN 11:24 · JHN 11:25 · ACT 1:22 · ACT 2:31 · ACT 4:2 · ACT 4:33 · ACT 17:18 · ACT 17:32 · ACT 23:6 · ACT 23:8 · ACT 24:15 · ACT 24:21 · ACT 26:23 · ROM 1:4 · ROM 6:5 · 1CO 15:12 · 1CO 15:13 · 1CO 15:21 · 1CO 15:42 · PHP 3:10 · 2TI 2:18 · HEB 6:2 · HEB 11:35 · HEB 11:35 · 1PE 1:3 · 1PE 3:21 · REV 20:5 · REV 20:6
87.39 · Status · High Status or Rank [including persons of high status]
to rise, to rise up, rising up a process of change from a lower to a higher status (note the contrast with πτῶσις[b] ‘a falling,’ 87.75) ἀνάστασις in LUK 2:34 may also be interpreted merely as a change for the better (see 13.60).
Reversals of rank and status are a frequent theme in the declaration of the prophets, and this becomes particularly significant in the Magnificat (see LUK 1:46).
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνάστασις, -ews, 7, (ἀνίστημι), [fr. Aeschyl. down]; 1. a raising up, rising, (e. g. fr. a seat): Lk. ii. 34 (opp. to πτῶσις; the meaning is ‘It lies [or ‘is set’ A. V.] like a stone, which some will lay hold of in order to climb; but others will strike against it and fall’). 2. arising from the dead (eccl. Lat. resurrectio), [Aeschyl Eum. 648]; a. thatof Christ: Actsi. 22; ii.31; iv. 33; Ro. vi.5; Phil. iii. 10; 1 Pet. iii. 21; with the addition of νεκρῶν, Ro. i. 4 (a generic phrase : the resurrectionof-the-dead, although it has come to pass as yet only in the case of Christ alone; cf. Acts xvii. 32; W. § 30, 2a. fin.); ἐκ νεκρῶν, 1 Pet.i.3. Ὁ. that of all men at the end of the present age. This is called simply ἀνάστασις or ἡ ἀνάστασις, Mt. xxii. 23, [28], 30; Mk. xii. 18, 23; Lk. xx. 27, 33, 36; Jn. xi. 24; Acts xvii. 18; xxiii. 8; 2 Tim. ii. 18; by meton. i. q. the author of resurrection, Jn. xi. 25; with the addition of ἡ ἐκ νεκρῶν, Lk. xx. 35; Acts iv. 2; or simply of τῶν νεκρῶν [on the distinction which some (e. g, Van Hengel on Ro. i. 4; Van Hengel and Bp. Lehtft. on Phil. iii. 11; Cremer s. v.) would make between these phrases, see W. 123 (117); B. 89 (78)], Mt. xxii. 31; Acts xvii. 32; xxiii. 6; xxiv. 15 [Rec.], 21; xxvi. 23; 1 Co. xv. 12 sq. 21,42; Heb. vi. 2. ἀνάστ. ζωῆς resurrection to life (av. εἰς Conv, 2 Mace. vii. 14 [ef. Dan. xii. 2]), and ἀν. τῆς κρίσεως resurrection to judgment, Jn. v. 29, (on the genitives cf. W. 188 (177)); the former is ἡ ἀνάστ. τῶν δικαίων, Lk. xiv. 14; κρείττων ἀνάστασις, Heb. xi. 35 (so called in comparison with a continuance of life on earth, which is spoken of as an ἀνάστασις by a kind of license; [ef. W. 460 (429)]). ἡ dvaor. ἡ πρώτη in Rev. xx. 5 sq. will be that of true Christians, and at the end of a thousand years will be followed by a second resurrection, that of all the rest of mankind, Rev. xx. 12 sqq. On the question whether and in what sense Paul also believed in two resurrections, separated from each other by a definite space of time, ef. Grimm in the Zeitschr. fiir wissenschaftl. Theol., 1873, p. 388 sq. c. the resurrection of certain in ancient Jewish story who were restored to life before burial: Heb. xi. 35.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνάστασις anastasis 42x
a raising or rising up; resurrection, Mt. 22:23; meton. the author of resurrection, Jn. 11:25; met. an uprising into a state of higher advancement and blessedness, Lk. 2:34
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀνά-στασις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀνίστημι), [in LXX: Ze 3:8 (קוּם), La 3:63 (קִימָה), Ps 64 (66) tit., Da LXX 11:20, II Mac 7:14 12:43*;]
a raising up, awakening, rising (in Inscr. of the erection of a monument, v. MM, VGT, s.v.): Lk 2:34.
a rising from the dead (v. DCG, ii, 605b); of Christ: Ac 1:22 2:31 4:33, Ro 6:5, Phl 3:10, I Pe 3:21; ἐξ ἀ. νεκρῶν, Ro 1:4 (ICC, in l.); ἐκ νεκρῶν, I Pe 1:3;
of persons in OT hist. (e.g. III Ki 17:17 ff.): He 11:35;
of the general resurrection: Mt 22:23, 28, 30, Mk 12:18, 23, Lk 20:27, 33, 36, Jo 11:24, Ac 17:18 23:8 24:15, II Ti 2:18; ἀ. ἐκ νεκρῶν, Lk 20:35, Ac 4:2; τῶν νεκρῶν, Mt 22:31, Ac 17:32 23:6 24:21 26:23, I Co 15:12, 13, 21, 42, He 6:2; ἀ. ζωῆς, resurrection to life (cf. II Mac 7:14, ἀ. εἰς ζωήν) and ἀ. τ. κρίσεως, r. to judgment, Jo 5:29; ἀ. τ. δικαίων, Lk 14:14; κρείττων ἀ., He 11:35; on ἡ ἀ. ἡ πρώτη, Re 20:5, 6, v. Swete, in l., Westc. on Jo 5, but v. also Thayer, s.v.; by meton. of Christ as Author of ἀ., Jo 11:25 (v. DB, iv, 231; Cremer, 307).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνάστασις. The verb is frequent in inscriptions with the sense ‘‘ erection” of amonument, see Sy// 3248, 34248 (both i/B.c.), C. and 8. ii. p. 637 (A.D. 70-80), 7A/Ae iii. 478, 479, 481 (all ii/a.p.), Magn 179% *, το 325, and for the verb Sy// 65674, 6864 (both ii/A.b.), αἱ. So still in A.p. 215, BGU I. 362 ¥ii- (=Chrest. I. p. 128) ὑπὲρ avalotacew|s the ““ of Severus, and probably 24. 1V. 10288 (ii/a D.) ὁλκῆς py lov setting up” of a statue {} ἀναστατοω ὃ πρὸς ἀϊνά]στασιν [. . ., but the context is not clear. The narrative of Ac 17 (see ν. **) prepares us for the total novelty of the meaning ‘‘resurrection”: it was a perfectly natural use of the word, but the idea itself was new. We find this meaning in C. and B. no. 232 (= Cagnat IV. 743, Alexander Severus), where an Epicurean Jew of Eumeneia in Phrygia begins to tell us what he thought of o]t δὴ δ[είλγαιοι πάντ[ες] εἰς d[valoraciw|{ . . . (βλέποντες or the like): see Ramsay’s interesting notes.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀνάστασις (anastasis) — resurrection. ἀνά-στᾰσις, εως, Ionic dialect ιος, ἡ,
I. active, (ἀνίστημι) making to stand or rise up, raising up the dead, ἀνδρὸς δ᾽ ἐπειδὰν αἷμ᾽ ἀνασπάσῃ κόνις.. οὔτις ἔστ᾽ ἀ.[NT+4th c.BC+]
I.2. making to rise and leave their place, removal, as of suppliants, ἀ. ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τῆς Ἰωνίας removal of the Greeks from Ionia [for safety], [Refs 5th c.BC+]: mostly in bad sense, desolation, ἅλωσιν Ἰλίου τ᾽ ἀνάστασιν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; disturbance, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.3. setting up, erection, τειχῶν[Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. (ἀνίσταμαι) standing or rising up, πόδες ἀναστάσεως χάριν[Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.2. rising and moving off, removal, στρατεύματος[Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. rising up, ἐξ ὕπνου[Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. b especially for the stool, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, motions, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
II.3. c rising again after a fall, [NT]
II.3. d rising from the dead, Τυνδάρεω[Refs 2nd c.AD+]; εἰς ἀνάστασιν [perhaps βλέποντες] [Refs 3rd c.AD+]: frequently in N.T., [NT+3rd c.AD+]