anastasis · resurrection

What it means

anastasis (ἀνάστασις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “resurrection”.

Coming back to life after death.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Coming back to life after death.
2. Getting up after a fall.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• resurrection ×41
• rising ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×2
• Luke×6
• John×4
• Acts×11
• Romans×2
• 1 Corinthians×4
• Philippians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×3
• 1 Peter×2
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 22:23

  On that day Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him, and they questioned him,

• Matthew 22:28

  In the resurrection, then, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”

• Matthew 22:30

  For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

• Matthew 22:31

  But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

• Mark 12:18

  And Sadducees come to him, who say there is no resurrection, and they were questioning him, saying,

• Mark 12:23

  In the resurrection, when they rise, which of them will she be wife to? For the seven had her as wife.”

• Luke 2:34

  And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Look, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that will be spoken against

• Luke 14:14

  and you will be happy, because they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

• Luke 20:27

  And some of the Sadducees, those who contend that there is no resurrection, came up and asked him,

• Luke 20:33

  The woman, then, in the resurrection, of which of them does she become wife? For the seven had her as wife.”

• Luke 20:35

  but those who are considered worthy to attain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage;

• Luke 20:36

  for neither can they die anymore, for they are equal to angels, and they are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

• John 5:29

  and come out, those who have done good to a resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil to a resurrection of judgment.

• John 11:24

  Martha says to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

• John 11:25

  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,

• Acts 1:22

  beginning from the immersion of John until the day on which he was taken up from us, that one of these become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

• Acts 2:31

  foreseeing this, he spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

• Acts 4:2

  greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

• Acts 4:33

  And with great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

• Acts 17:18

  And some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were debating with him, and some were saying, “What would this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,” because he was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

• Acts 17:32

  Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”

• Acts 23:6

  And Paul, knowing that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am being judged.”

• Acts 23:8

  For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but Pharisees acknowledge both.

• Acts 24:15

  having a hope in God, which these men themselves also await, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

• Acts 24:21

  unless it is about this one statement that I cried out while standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged today before you.’”

• Acts 26:23

  that the Messiah would suffer, and that, being the first out of the resurrection of the dead, he would proclaim light both to the people and to the nations.”

• Romans 1:4

  who was appointed Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection of the dead: Jesus the Messiah, our Lord,

• Romans 6:5

  For if we have become united with the likeness of his death, certainly we will be united also with the likeness of his resurrection,

• 1 Corinthians 15:12

  Now if it is preached that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, how is it that some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

• 1 Corinthians 15:13

  But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even the Messiah has been raised;

• 1 Corinthians 15:21

  For since through a man came death, also through a man has come the resurrection of the dead.

• 1 Corinthians 15:42

  So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in decay, it is raised in imperishability;

• Philippians 3:10

  to know him and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

• 2 Timothy 2:18

  who have missed the mark concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they are overturning the faith of some.

• Hebrews 6:2

  teaching about immersions, and laying on of hands, and resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

• Hebrews 11:35

  Women received their dead by resurrection; but others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, so that they might obtain a better resurrection.

• 1 Peter 1:3

  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah from the dead,

• 1 Peter 3:21

  which also now saves you, as a corresponding figure: immersion, not the removal of dirt from the flesh but the request of a good conscience to God, through the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah,

• Revelation 20:5

  The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.

• Revelation 20:6

  Happy and holy is the one who has a share in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Messiah, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

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