ἐκταράσσω
ektarássō · G1613 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to stir up against, to start a riot, to cause an uproar
To cause people to riot against
ExamplesActs 16:20 and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, “These men, Jews as they are, are causing our city trouble,
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πόλιςcity 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- σαλεύω saleúō · G4531 · to shake, to stir up against, to start a riot
- ἐκταράσσω denotes thorough or complete disturbance (prefixed intensification), while σαλεύω denotes general agitation, shaking, or causing to waver, without the specifically exhaustive force. Both express causing disturbance or upheaval, with ἐκταράσσω marking the more intensive variant.
- ἀνασείω anaseíō · G383 · to stir up against, to start a riot, to cause an uproar
- Both denote the incitement or stirring up of a group toward disorder, with ἐκταράσσω emphasizing thoroughgoing disturbance and ἀνασείω the act of rousing or exciting to action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To stir up against, to start a riot, to cause an uproar39.44
- Used in Acts 16:20, where Paul and Silas are accused before the magistrates of Philippi of throwing the city into confusion, being Jews who were advocating customs not lawful for Romans to accept.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon post-classical; to agitate, trouble, exceedingly: τήν πόλιν, Acts 16:20. (τόν δῆμον,…
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
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