Quick Definition
I make straight again, rear again, restore
Strong's Definition
to straighten up
Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and a derivative of the base of G3717 (ὀρθός);
KJV Usage: lift (set) up, make straight
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνορθόω, ἀνόρθω: future ἀνορθώσω; 1 aorist ἀνωρθωσα; 1 aorist passive ἀνωρθωθην (Luk_13:13; without the augment ἀνορθωθην L T Tr; cf. (WHs Appendix, p. 161); Buttmann, 34 (30); (Winer's Grammar, 73) (70));
1. to set up, make erect: a crooked person, Luk_13:13 (she was made straight, stood erect); drooping hands and relaxed knees (to raise them up by restoring their strength), Heb_12:12.
2. to rear again, build anew: ἀκηνην, Act_15:16 (Herodotus 1, 19 τόν νηον ... τόν ἐνέπρησαν; 8, 140; Xenophon, Hell. 4, 8, 12, etc.; in various senses in the Sept.).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνορθόω anorthoō 3x
to restore to straightness or erectness, Luk_13:13 ;
to re-invigorate, Heb_12:12 ;
to re-erect, Act_15:16
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀν -ορθόω , -ῶ
(ἀνά , ὀρθόω , to set straight, set up),
[in LXX chiefly for H3559 hi .;]
to set upright or straight again, restore: of persons, Luk_13:13 , Heb_12:12 ; of things, σκηνήν , Act_15:16 ( MM , VGT , s.v. ; Cremer , 807).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνορθόω [page 45]
ἀνορθόω occurs in the fragmentary P Lips I. 119 recto .3 (A.D. 274) τ ]ῶν ἀμαρτιω̣̑ [ν ] τ̣ὰς πονηρίας συνεχῶ [ς ἀ ]νορθουμένων . For the sense of rear again, as Act_15:16 , cf. OGIS 710 .4 (ii/A.D.) τὸ π [ρ ]οπύλα [ιον ] χρόνῳ [διαφθαρὲ ]ν [ἀ ]νώρθωσεν ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου Ἀπολλώνιος ἐπ᾽ ἀγαθῶι . The noun occurs in P Ryl II. 157 .13 (A.D. 135) ἔσται δε̣, ἡ ἀνόρθωσις τῶν [νῦν ἀποκαθι ]στανομένων κοινῶν [τ ]ει̣χ̣ω̣̑ [ν ] ἀ̣ [πὸ κ ]ο̣ι̣νῶν λ [η ]μ̣μ̣α̣τ̣ων the restoration of the common walls (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀνορθόω "to set up again, restore, rebuild", Hdt. , Thuc. "to restore to health" or "well-being", πόλιν Soph. "to set straight again, set right, correct", τινα Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀν-ορθόω, -ῶ
(ἀνά, ὀρθόω, to set straight, set up), [in LXX chiefly for כּוּן hi. ;]
to set upright or straight again, restore: of persons, Luk.13:13, Heb.12:12; of things, σκηνήν, Act.15:16 (MM, VGT, see word; Cremer, 807).†
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