Bible word study

Egeiro (Strong’s G1453): Meaning in the Bible

Egeiro (ἐγείρω) is the Greek word numbered G1453 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up.

• Original wordἐγείρω
• Transliterationegeírō
• Pronunciationeg-i'-ro
• Strong’s numberG1453
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. probably akin to the base of G58 (through the idea of collecting one's faculties);

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Egeiro appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Egeiro (G1453) stands behind 162 English renderings in 135 verses across 17 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Matthew (35), 1 Corinthians (27), Mark (20).

How the King James Bible renders Egeiro, by count

• up27 of 162 (17 percent)
• raised25 of 162 (15 percent)
• risen18 of 162 (11 percent)
• arise12 of 162 (7 percent)
• arose12 of 162 (7 percent)
• rise9 of 162 (6 percent)

Three places to read Egeiro

• Matthew 2:13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
• Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
• Acts 10:40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Egeiro in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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