egeirō · raise

What it means

egeirō (ἐγείρω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “raise”.

Wake up; get up; raise from the dead.

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 rouse someone from sleep, or to stir from sleep.
2. To help someone stand, or to stand up.
3. To come back to life after death.
4. To make someone appear, to raise up.

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

Word study

To raise; to wake; to get up; and from there to raise from the dead. Of the same family are ἔγερσις, “a rising”, and γρηγορέω, “to keep watch”.

• Raising up a sick person Mark 1:31
• “Get up, pick up your mat” Mark 2:11
• Waking someone who sleeps Matthew 8:25
• “He has been raised”; “whom God raised from {the} dead” Matthew 28:6Acts 3:15
• “He has been raised on the third day” 1 Corinthians 15:41 Corinthians 15:42

How we translate it

“Raised” 79 times, “Get up” 21, “got up” 11, “raise” 9, “will rise” 6, “woke” 2… This edition's glossary sets “raise”; in 1 Corinthians 15 the verb is translated with the passive of “raise” throughout the chapter (“he has been raised”, “it is raised”), so that the same verb is seen from beginning to end.

How it is translated

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

• raised ×79
• Get up ×21
• got up ×11
• raise ×9
• will rise ×6
• raises ×3
• gets up ×2
• rise ×2
• woke ×2
• Awake ×1
• others ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×36
• Mark×19
• Luke×18
• John×13
• Acts×12
• Romans×10
• 1 Corinthians×20
• 2 Corinthians×4
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×2
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1
• James×1
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 1:24

  And Joseph, rising from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took to himself his wife;

• Matthew 2:13

  And when they had withdrawn, look, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him.”

• Matthew 2:14

  And he got up, took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

• Matthew 2:20

  saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life have died.”

• Matthew 2:21

  And he got up, took the child and his mother, and went into the land of Israel.

• Matthew 3:9

  and do not presume to say within yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you that God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

• Matthew 8:15

  And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and began to serve him.

• Matthew 8:25

  And they came and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us; we are perishing!”

• Matthew 8:26

  And he says to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

• Matthew 9:5

  For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

• Matthew 9:6

  But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”— then he says to the paralytic— “Get up, pick up your bed, and go to your home.”

• Matthew 9:7

  And he got up and went away to his home.

• Matthew 9:19

  And Jesus got up and was following him, and so did his disciples.

• Matthew 9:25

  But when the crowd had been put out, he went in and took hold of her hand, and the girl got up.

• Matthew 10:8

  Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Freely you received; freely give.

• Matthew 11:5

  the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

• Matthew 11:11

  Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Immerser; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

• Matthew 12:11

  But he said to them, “What man will there be among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?

• Matthew 12:42

  The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look, something greater than Solomon is here.

• Matthew 14:2

  and he said to his servants, “This is John the Immerser; he has been raised from the dead, and that is why the powers are at work in him.”

• Matthew 16:21

  From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go away to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

• Matthew 17:7

  And Jesus came and, touching them, said, “Get up, and do not be afraid.”

• Matthew 17:9

  And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell no one the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”

• Matthew 17:23

  and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.” And they were deeply grieved.

• Matthew 20:19

  and will hand him over to the nations to mock and flog and crucify him, and on the third day he will be raised.”

• Matthew 24:7

  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

• Matthew 24:11

  And many false prophets will rise and lead many astray.

• Matthew 24:24

  For false messiahs and false prophets will rise and will perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.

• Matthew 25:7

  Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps.

• Matthew 26:32

  But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”

• Matthew 26:46

  Get up, let us go; look, the one who hands me over has come near.”

• Matthew 27:52

  and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

• Matthew 27:63

  and said, “Sir, we remember that that impostor said while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will be raised.’

• Matthew 27:64

  So order the grave to be made secure until the third day, so that his disciples may not come and steal him and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

• Matthew 28:6

  He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come, see the place where he was lying.

• Matthew 28:7

  And go quickly and tell his disciples that ‘He has been raised from the dead, and look, he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him.’ Look, I have told you.”

• Mark 1:31

  And he came and raised her up, taking her by the hand; and the fever left her, and she began serving them.

• Mark 2:9

  Which is easier, to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your mat and walk’?

• Mark 2:11

  “I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go to your home.”

• Mark 2:12

  And he got up, and at once picking up the mat, he went out before all of them, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

And 103 more times.