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

Where Anastasis appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Anastasis (G386) stands behind 44 English renderings in 40 verses across 12 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (11), Luke (6), Matthew (4).

How the King James Bible renders Anastasis, by count

• resurrection31 of 44 (70 percent)
• the resurrection7 of 44 (16 percent)
• again2 of 44 (5 percent)
• a1 of 44 (2 percent)
• of1 of 44 (2 percent)
• of the resurrection1 of 44 (2 percent)

Three places to read Anastasis

• Matthew 22:23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
• John 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
• Romans 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

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.

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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