ἐγείρω
e-gā'-rō
verb
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Probably akin to the base of ἀγορά (G58) (through the idea of collecting one's faculties)
probably akin to the base of G58 (through the idea of collecting one's faculties); to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively, from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence):—awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-)rise (again, up), stand, take up.
Outline
- to arouse, cause to rise
- to arouse from sleep, to awake
- to arouse from the sleep of death, to recall the dead to life
- to cause to rise from a seat or bed etc.
- to raise up, produce, cause to appear
- to cause to appear, bring before the public
- to raise up, stir up, against one
- to raise up i.e. cause to be born
- of buildings, to raise up, construct, erect