Bible word study
Anastasis (Strong’s G386): Meaning in the Bible
Anastasis (ἀνάστασις) is the Greek word numbered G386 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, genitive case or by implication, (its author)), or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth). In the King James Bible it is translated raised to life again, resurrection, rise from the dead, that should rise, rising again..
- Original wordἀνάστασις
- Transliterationanástasis
- Pronunciationan-as'-tas-is
- Strong’s numberG386
- LanguageGreek
The full Strong’s definition
Derivation. from G450;
How the King James Bible translates it
And Christ
The word names the rising of the dead. The Christian faith stands or falls on one instance of it, the resurrection of Jesus, which they hold to be the firstfruits of their own.
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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