anagō · bring up, set sail

What it means

anagō (ἀνάγω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “bring up, set sail”.

Lead up, bring up; also offer; in the passive, put out to sea, set sail.

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. To take someone up.
2. To bring someone out before the public, or bring an offering to the altar.
3. To set out to sea by boat.

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

How it is translated

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

• set sail ×8
• put out to sea ×4
• bring him out ×1
• bring up ×1
• he brought ×1
• leading him up ×1
• offered ×1
• putting out to sea ×1
• setting sail ×1
• they brought him up ×1
• others ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×3
• Acts×17
• Romans×1
• Hebrews×1

• Matthew 4:1

  Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tested by the devil.

• Luke 2:22

  And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

• Luke 4:5

  And leading him up, he showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited world in a moment of time.

• Luke 8:22

  Now it happened on one of the days that he and his disciples got into a boat, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” And they set sail.

• Acts 7:41

  And they made a calf in those days and offered a sacrifice to the idol, and they were rejoicing in the works of their hands.

• Acts 9:39

  So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they brought him up to the upper room, and all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and garments that Dorcas used to make while she was with them.

• Acts 12:4

  When he had seized him, he also put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of four soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

• Acts 13:13

  And Paul and those with him put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

• Acts 16:11

  So setting sail from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis,

• Acts 16:34

  And he brought them up into his house and set a table before them, and he rejoiced with his whole household at having believed in God.

• Acts 18:21

  but taking leave of them and saying, “I will return to you again, if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.

• Acts 20:3

  And after he had spent three months there, when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

• Acts 20:13

  But we went ahead to the ship and set sail for Assos, intending to take aboard Paul there; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.

• Acts 21:1

  And when it happened that we set sail, having torn ourselves away from them, running a straight course we came to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

• Acts 21:2

  And having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

• Acts 27:2

  And embarking on a ship of Adramyttium that was about to sail to the places along the coast of Asia, we put out to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, being with us.

• Acts 27:4

  And from there putting out to sea, we sailed under the shelter of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

• Acts 27:12

  And because the harbor was unsuitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

• Acts 27:21

  And as there was much lack of food, then Paul, standing in their midst, said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not put out to sea from Crete and so spared yourselves this damage and loss.

• Acts 28:10

  They also honored us with many honors, and when we set sail they put on board the things for our needs.

• Acts 28:11

  And after three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island, with the emblem of the Dioscuri.

• Romans 10:7

  or: Who will go down into the abyss? (that is, to bring up the Messiah from the dead).

• Hebrews 13:20

  Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,