Word

ἀνασείω

anaseíō · G383 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

to stir up against, to start a riot, to cause an uproar

To cause people to riot against

Examples
Mark 15:11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead.
Luke 23:5 But they kept on insisting, saying, “He is stirring up the people, teaching all over Judea, starting from Galilee, as far as this place!”

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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἀρχιερεύςchief priest, high priest 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

λαόςpeople 1
ὄχλοςcrowd, multitude, common people 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

λέγωto 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 1 word

θορυβέω thorybéō · G2350 · to stir up against, to start a riot, to cause an uproar: Both verbs describe causing public disturbance or unrest: ἀναστατόω denotes inciting an uproar or upsetting the established order, especially in a collective, seditious sense, while θορυβέω denotes causing a tumult or personal distress more broadly. The two converge in describing the incitement of public disorder.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To stir up against, to start a riot, to cause an uproar39.44: In Mark 15:11, before Pilate, “the chief priests stirred up (anéseisan) the crowd to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead,” describing the deliberate incitement of the crowd against Jesus.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

σείω seíō · G4579 · to shake, to stir up, to cause an uproar · 5×σεισμός seismós · G4578 · earthquake, storm on the sea · 14×κατασείω kataseíō · G2678 · to make a sign, to give a signal · 4×ἀνασείωanaseíō · G383διασείω diaseíō · G1286 · to extort, to take money by violence · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist ἀνεσεισα; to shake up; tropically, to stir up, excite, rouse: τόν ὄχλον, Mk…

1 aorist ἀνεσεισα; to shake up; tropically, to stir up, excite, rouse: τόν ὄχλον, Mk 15:11; τόν λαόν, Lk 23:5. (So in Diodorus 13, 91; 14, 10; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 8, 81.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Riot2 occurrences

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