ἐξανίστημι
exanístēmi · G1817 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to stand up
To stand up in a manner distinct from someone else
ExamplesActs 15:5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to keep the Law of Moses.”
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to beget, to procreate, to become the father of
(An idiom, literally: to raise up seed) The male role in begetting children
ExamplesMark 12:19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, his brother is to marry the wife and raise up children for his brother.
Luke 20:28 and they questioned Him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife, and he is childless, that his brother is to marry the wife and raise up children for his brother.
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
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- πιστεύωto believe 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- σπέρμαseed, descendants 2
To or for whomIndirect object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀδελφόςbrother 2
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- קוּם qûwm · H6965 · to arise, to rise up, to stand up
- Hebrew קוּם encompasses a broad semantic range including 'arise/stand up' and 'establish/raise up (offspring)', which directly maps to Greek ἐξανίστημι's specialized sense of 'raising up' in the figurative context of producing/begetting descendants (cf. Deuteronomy 25:5-6 levirate marriage contexts where both appear in LXX alignment).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To stand up17.11
- This verb describes rising up from a seated or reclining position, used of certain Pharisees who had believed standing up to insist that Gentile converts be circumcised — "some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, 'It is necessary to circumcise them'" (Acts 15:5).
- To beget, to procreate, to become the father of23.59
- It also describes raising up offspring through levirate marriage, used of the Sadducees' question to Jesus about the law of a man marrying his brother's widow to raise up children for him — "his brother is to marry the wife and raise up children for his brother" (Mark 12:19).
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἐξανέστησα; 2 aorist ἐξανεστην; 1. to make rise up, to raise up, to produce:…
1. to make rise up, to raise up, to produce: σπέρμα, Mk 12:19; Lk 20:28 (Hebrew זֶרַע הֵקִים, Gen 38:8).
2. 2 aorist active to rise in an assembly to speak (as in Xenophon, an. 6, 1, 30); Acts 15:5.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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