Word

διαγρηγορέω

diagrēgoréō · G1235 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to become fully awake

    To awaken completely from sleep

    Examples

    Luke 9:32 Now Peter and his companions had been overcome with sleep; but when they were fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men who were standing with Him.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 2 groups

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Near synonyms 1 word
ἐξυπνίζω exypnízō · G1852 · to cause to wake up, to awaken someone, to wake up someone
A Greek verb meaning to wake someone up or to awaken from sleep; semantically very close to διαγρηγορέω in denoting the action of becoming fully awake, though not a cognate.
Contrasting words 2 words
καθεύδω katheúdō · G2518 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep
The standard Greek verb for sleeping, the lexical opposite of awakening thoroughly; one cannot simultaneously sleep and be fully awake.
κοιμάω koimáō · G2837 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep
A Greek verb meaning to sleep or fall asleep (often used euphemistically for death); represents the opposite state from being thoroughly awakened.
In the other Testament 1 word
עוּר ʻûwr · H5782 · to wake up, to awaken
The standard Hebrew verb for awakening, both intransitively (to wake up) and transitively (to rouse someone), corresponding closely to the Greek concept of becoming fully awake.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To become fully awake23.76
Used of rousing from heavy sleep, as of Peter and his companions, overcome with sleep at the transfiguration, becoming fully awake and seeing Jesus' glory in Luke 9:32.
Word family 8 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon διαγρηγόρω: 1 aorist διεγρηγόρησα; to watch through, (Herodian, 3, 4, 8 (4, Bekker…
διαγρηγόρω: 1 aorist διεγρηγόρησα; to watch through, (Herodian, 3, 4, 8 (4, Bekker edition) πάσης τῆς νυκτός... διαγρηγορήσαντες, Niceph. Greg. Hist. Byz., p. 205 f. and 571 a.); to remain awake: Lk 9:32 (for they had overcome the force of sleep, with which they were weighed down, βεβαρημένοι ὕπνῳ); (others (e. g., R. V. text) to be fully awake, cf. Niceph. as above, p. 205 f. δόξαν ἀπεβαλομην ὥσπερ οἱ διαγρηγορήσαντες τά ἐν τοῖς ὑπνοῖς ὀνειρατα; Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 11f).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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