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ἀνίστημι

to raise

‘to raise’ is one of 6 main senses fuller range ↓

G450 Strong's Greek
anístēmi Transliteration
/an-is'-tay-mee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 107 appearances

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About this entry

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“to raise” is the headline sense of the Greek verb ανιστημι (anístēmi). Where the King James Version says “arise,” newer translations reach for “get up” (Berean Standard Bible) and “arising” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 106 verses across 10 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Acts. Lexicons map it across 6 senses. See the sense tree, 106-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
arise
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 G450 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 →

106
distinct verses
The word appears in 106 distinct verses.
10 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 9:9
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 9:9.
Hebrews 7:15
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Hebrews 7:15.
#155
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 155 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 106 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 55 · 52%
  • Acts 44 · 42%
  • Pauline Epistles 5 · 5%
  • General Epistles 2 · 2%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 106 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 70 verses · 66%
  • Gospels 55 verses · 52%
  • Johannine 8 verses · 8%
  • Pauline corpus 5 verses · 5%
  • Hebrews 2 verses · 2%

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×, Arose 12×, He arose 10×
  • American Standard Version: Arise 11×, Stood up 10×, He arose 9×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Get up 14×, Got up 12×, Stood up 9×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Arising 14×, Having gotten up 8×, Arise 6×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G450 across 123 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Arise” 12×
  • “Arose” 12×
  • “He arose” 10×
  • “Rose up” 8×
  • “Stood up” 6×
  • “Rise” 5×
  • “Up” 5×
  • “He shall rise again” 4×
  • “Rose” 4×
  • “He rose up” 3×
  • “Raise up” 3×
  • “Rise again” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 36 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G450 across 120 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Arise” 11×
  • “Stood up” 10×
  • “He arose” 9×
  • “Rise” 9×
  • “Up” 7×
  • “Rose up” 6×
  • “Arose” 5×
  • “He rose up” 4×
  • “He shall rise again” 4×
  • “Raise up” 3×
  • “Rise again” 3×
  • “Rose” 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G450 across 107 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Get up” 14×
  • “Got up” 12×
  • “Stood up” 9×
  • “Rise” 6×
  • “He got up” 4×
  • “Rose” 4×
  • “He will rise again” 3×
  • “Will raise him up” 3×
  • “He stood up” 2×
  • “Rises” 2×
  • “She got up” 2×
  • “They got up” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 40 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.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G450 across 117 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Arising” 14×
  • “Having gotten up” 8×
  • “Arise” 6×
  • “Rising up” 6×
  • “Up” 6×
  • “Get up” 5×
  • “Rose up” 5×
  • “Having risen up” 4×
  • “Having stood up” 4×
  • “Rise up” 4×
  • “Will raise” 4×
  • “Arose” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 25 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 6 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 cause to rise up, raise up
  2. of persons lying down, of persons lying on the ground
  3. of persons seated
  4. of those who leave a place to go elsewhere
  5. of the dead
  6. at arise, appear, stand forth

Word origin

Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 07:08,6

From G303 and G2476 ; to stand up (literally or figuratively transitively or intransitively): - arise lift up raise up (again) rise (again) stand up (-right).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 23 distinct written forms G450 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀναστὰς anastàs Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 9:9 29
ἀνέστη anéstē Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 3:26 15
ἀνάστηθι anástēthi Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Acts 8:26 7
ἀναστῆναι anastē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Mark 8:31 7
ἀναστάντες anastántes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Mark 14:57 6
ἀναστήσεται anastḗsetai Verb, Future, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 9:31 5
ἀνέστησεν anéstēsen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 2:24 4
ἀναστήσονται anastḗsontai Verb, Future, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 12:41 4
ἀναστήσω anastḗsō Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular John 6:39 4
Ἀναστὰς Anastàs Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Mark 16:9 4
ἀναστήσας anastḗsas Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 3:26 3
ἀναστήσει anastḗsei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 22:24 3
ἀνάστα anásta Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Acts 12:7 2
ἀνέστησαν anéstēsan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 6:9 2
ἀναστάς anastás Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 10:13 2
ἀναστῇ anastē̂ Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Mark 9:9 2
ἀναστῶσιν anastō̂sin Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Mark 12:23 2
ἀνίστασθαι anístasthai Verb, Present, Middle, Infinitive Hebrews 7:11 1
ἀνίσταται anístatai Verb, Present, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 7:15 1
ἀναστὰν anastàn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Luke 23:1 1
ἀναστᾶσα anastâsa Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Luke 4:39 1
ἀνιστάμενος anistámenos Verb, Present, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Romans 15:12 1
Ἀναστᾶσα Anastâsa Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Luke 1:39 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G450, 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.

Derives from

Shares the same root

+51 more words share this root (not shown).

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 79 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ανιστημι appears 485 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 465 verses in 33 books.

485
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
465
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
33 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 33 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G450) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 465. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G450) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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