Strong's Greek · G1453

ἐγείρω

egeírō

awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-)rise (again, up), stand, take up

Definition

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)

Derivation

probably akin to the base of G58 (ἀγορά) (through the idea of collecting one's faculties);

Appears 144 times in Scripture

Matthew 8:26

“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.

Matthew 8:25

The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

Matthew 2:14

So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

Matthew 9:7

And the man got up and went home.

Matthew 2:20

“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”

Matthew 1:24

When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and embraced Mary as his wife.

Matthew 3:9

And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

Matthew 2:13

When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”

Matthew 2:21

So Joseph got up, took the Child and His mother, and went to the land of Israel.

Matthew 9:6

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” Then He said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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