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ἐγείρω

to raise

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G1453 Strong's Greek
egeírō Transliteration
/eg-i'-ro/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 143 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

At its core, εγειρω (egeírō) means “to raise.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “arise” in the King James Version, “get up” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 137 verses across 18 books, a common footprint. The word gravitates to Matthew (26%), then Mark and Luke. Catalogued under 4 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
awake
Modern gloss
to raise
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1453 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

137
distinct verses
The word appears in 137 distinct verses.
18 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 18 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:24
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:24.
Revelation 11:1
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 11:1.
#115
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 115 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 137 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 86 · 63%
  • Acts 12 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 35 · 26%
  • General Epistles 3 · 2%
  • Revelation 1 · 1%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 137 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 86 verses · 63%
  • Pauline corpus 35 verses · 26%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 30 verses · 22%
  • Johannine 14 verses · 10%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 1%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 1%
  • Revelation 1 verse · 1%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Arise 12×, Rise 10×, Raised 9×
  • American Standard Version: Raised 19×, Arise 16×, Up 9×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Get up 17×, Raised 14×, Got up 7×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Get up 14×, Raised 14×, Up 10×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1453 across 160 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Arise” 12×
  • “Rise” 10×
  • “Raised” 9×
  • “Up” 9×
  • “He arose” 6×
  • “Raised up” 6×
  • “Arose” 5×
  • “Is raised” 5×
  • “Shall rise” 5×
  • “He is risen” 4×
  • “He raised” 4×
  • “Is risen” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 46 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1453 across 157 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Raised” 19×
  • “Arise” 16×
  • “Up” 9×
  • “Been raised” 5×
  • “Hath” 5×
  • “He arose” 5×
  • “Is risen” 5×
  • “Raised up” 5×
  • “Arose” 4×
  • “He is risen” 4×
  • “Is raised” 4×
  • “He raised” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 42 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1453 across 144 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Get up” 17×
  • “Raised” 14×
  • “Got up” 7×
  • “He has risen” 5×
  • “Will rise” 5×
  • “Are not raised” 4×
  • “Has been raised” 4×
  • “Has risen” 4×
  • “Is raised” 4×
  • “Are raised” 3×
  • “He got up” 3×
  • “He raised” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 37 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1453 across 162 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Get up” 14×
  • “Raised” 14×
  • “Up” 10×
  • “Has been raised” 8×
  • “Having gotten up” 8×
  • “Having been raised” 7×
  • “Having raised” 7×
  • “Are” 5×
  • “He raised” 4×
  • “Is raised” 4×
  • “Raise up” 4×
  • “Are raised” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 30 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 4 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to arouse from sleep, to awake
  2. to arouse from the sleep of death, to recall the dead to life
  3. to cause to rise from a seat or bed etc.
  4. to raise up, produce, cause to appear

Word origin

Derived from αγορα (agorá) (G58) — assembly.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 07:33,2

Probably akin to the base of G58 (through the idea of collecting one´ s faculties); to waken (transitively or intransitively) that is rouse (literally from sleep from sitting or lying from disease from death; or figuratively from obscurity inactivity ruins nonexistence): - awake lift (up) raise (again up) rear up (a-) rise (again up) stand take up.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 35 distinct written forms G1453 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἤγειρεν ḗgeiren Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 1:31 21
ἠγέρθη ēgérthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 8:15 17
ἐγερθεὶς egertheìs Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:24 12
ἔγειρε égeire Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 9:5 12
ἐγήγερται egḗgertai Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 11:11 9
ἐγείρονται egeírontai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 11:5 9
ἐγείρεται egeíretai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 7:52 7
ἐγερθήσεται egerthḗsetai Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 12:42 7
ἐγερθήσονται egerthḗsontai Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 24:11 4
ἐγείραντος egeírantos Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Romans 8:11 3
ἐγείρας egeíras Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Romans 8:11 3
ἐγείρεσθε egeíresthe Verb, Present, Middle or Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 26:46 3
ἐγερεῖ egereî Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 12:11 3
ἐγερθῆναι egerthē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive Matthew 16:21 3
ἐγείραντα egeíranta Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Romans 4:24 2
ἐγείρει egeírei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 5:21 2
ἐγείρειν egeírein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Philippians 1:17 2
ἐγερθέντι egerthénti Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine Romans 7:4 2
ἐγερθῆναί egerthē̂naí Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive Matthew 26:32 2
ἐγερθῇ egerthē̂ Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 17:9 2
ἐγεῖραι egeîrai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 3:9 2
ἐγηγερμένον egēgerménon Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Mark 16:14 2
ἠγέρθησαν ēgérthēsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 25:7 2
ἐγέρθητε egérthēte Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 17:7 1
ἐγέρθητι egérthēti Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 7:14 1
ἐγείρετε egeírete Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 10:8 1
ἐγείρηται egeírētai Verb, Present, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Mark 4:27 1
ἐγείρομαι egeíromai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 27:63 1
ἐγείροντι egeíronti Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine 2 Corinthians 1:9 1
ἐγείρου egeírou Verb, Present, Middle or Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 8:54 1
ἐγείρουσιν egeírousin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 4:38 1
ἐγερεῖς egereîs Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 2:20 1
ἐγερθείς egertheís Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Romans 8:34 1
ἐγερῶ egerō̂ Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular John 2:19 1
ἤγειραν ḗgeiran Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 8:25 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1453, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εγειρω appears 40 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 39 verses in 16 books.

40
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
39
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
16 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1453) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

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