ἀνορθόω
to raise up
‘to raise up’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G461 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
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.
“to raise up” is the headline sense of the Greek verb ανορθοω (anorthóō). It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. More than a third of its appearances fall in Luke. First canonically at Luke 13:13, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G461 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 3 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 67%
- Gospels 1 verse · 33%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 33%
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: I will set 1×, Lift up 1×, She was made straight 1×
- American Standard Version: I will set 1×, Lift up 1×, She was made straight 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: I will restore it 1×, She straightened up 1×, Strengthen 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Make straight 1×, Restore 1×, She was straightened up 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G461 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G461 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G461 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G461 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- of a deformed person
- to rear again, build anew
Word origin
Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G461 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀνορθώθη anorthṓthē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 13:13 | 1 |
| ἀνορθώσατε anorthṓsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Hebrews 12:12 | 1 |
| ἀνορθώσω anorthṓsō | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Acts 15:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G461, 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
- αναβαινω anabaínō G305 to ascend
- αναβαλλομαι anabállomai G306 to delay
- αναβιβαζω anabibázō G307 to draw up
- αναβλεπω anablépō G308 to look up
- αναβοαω anaboáō G310 to cry out
- αναγγελλω anangéllō G312 to announce
- αναγενναω anagennáō G313 to be born again
- αναγινωσκω anaginṓskō G314 to recognize
- αναγκη anánkē G318 necessity
- αναγνωριζομαι anagnōrízomai G319 to recognize
- αναγω anágō G321 to lead up
- αναδεικνυμι anadeíknymi G322 to proclaim
- αναδεχομαι anadéchomai G324 to take up
- αναδιδωμι anadídōmi G325 to give forth
- αναζαω anazáō G326 to live again
- αναζητεω anazētéō G327 to search out
- αναζωννυμι anazṓnnymi G328 to gird up
- αναζωπυρεω anazōpyréō G329 to inflame
- αναθαλλω anathállō G330 to sprout up
- αναθεωρεω anatheōréō G333 to observe
- αναιρεω anairéō G337 to take away
- ανακαθιζω anakathízō G339 to sit up
- ανακαινιζω anakainízō G340 to renew
- ανακαινοω anakainóō G341 to make new
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 77 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ανορθοω appears 14 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 6 books.
- 14
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 7:13 ἀναὀρθόω
- 1 Chronicles 17:12 ἀναὀρθόω
- Psalms 17:36 ἀναὀρθόω
- Proverbs 24:3 ἀναὀρθόω
- Jeremiah 10:12 ἀναὀρθόω
- Ezekiel 16:7 ἀναὀρθόω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G461) 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.
- 2 Samuel 7:13 ἀναὀρθόω He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
- 2 Samuel 7:16 ἀναὀρθόω Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
- 1 Chronicles 17:12 ἀναὀρθόω He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
- 1 Chronicles 17:14 ἀναὀρθόω but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.
- 1 Chronicles 17:24 ἀναὀρθόω Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, Yahweh of Hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the house of David your servant is established before you.
- 1 Chronicles 22:10 ἀναὀρθόω he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
- Psalms 17:36 ἀναὀρθόω
- Psalms 19:9 ἀναὀρθόω The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
- Psalms 144:14 ἀναὀρθόω Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, And no outcry in our streets.
- Psalms 145:8 ἀναὀρθόω Yahweh is gracious, merciful, Slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
- Proverbs 24:3 ἀναὀρθόω Through wisdom a house is built; By understanding it is established;
- Jeremiah 10:12 ἀναὀρθόω He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
- Jeremiah 40:2 ἀναὀρθόω The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place;
- Ezekiel 16:7 ἀναὀρθόω I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G461) 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.
