Word

ἀνακαθίζω

anakathízō · G339 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to sit up

    To sit up from a reclining or lying position

    Examples

    Luke 7:15 And the dead man sat up and began to speak. And Jesus gave him back to his mother.

    Acts 9:40 But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

How it’s used In 1 role

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Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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 1 word
ἀνίστημι anístēmi · G450 · to cause to stand, to raise up, to raise to life
Both ἀνακαθίζω and ἀνίστημι describe rising from a recumbent or lower position. While ἀνακαθίζω specifically means to sit up (into a seated position), ἀνίστημι more broadly means to rise or stand up. They are near synonyms in contexts of resurrection or healing where someone moves from lying down to an upright position.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To sit up17.16
In Luke 7:15, after Jesus raises the widow's son, “the dead man sat up (anekáthisen) and began to speak. And Jesus gave him back to his mother,” describing the physical act of rising from a lying position.
Word family 18 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἀνεκάθισα; to raise oneself and sit upright; to sit up, sit erect: Lk 7:15…
: 1 aorist ἀνεκάθισα; to raise oneself and sit upright; to sit up, sit erect: Lk 7:15 (Lachmann marginal reading WH marginal reading ἐκάθισεν); Acts 9:40. (Xenophon, cyn. 5, 7, 19; Plutarch, Alex c. 14; and often in medical writings; with ἑαυτόν, Plutarch, Philop c. 20; middle in same sense, Plato, Phaedo c. 3, p. 60 b.)

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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