Greek word · Strong's G1453

ἐγείρω

egeírō · verb · “to raise up, awaken”

In a sentence

Egeirō means to raise or wake up — used of waking from sleep, lifting the lame to their feet, and most powerfully of God raising Jesus from the dead.

Egeirō is a vivid, active verb: rise up, get up, be raised. The Gospels use it for waking sleepers and lifting the sick to their feet, but it carries its greatest weight in the resurrection.

“He is not here, for he has been raised (ēgerthē),” the angel tells the women at the tomb. The same verb shapes Paul’s gospel summary and the believer’s hope — God will likewise raise us. Resurrection is not a metaphor in the New Testament; it is a verb God does.

Strong's reference

Definition: to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively, from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence)

KJV usage: awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-)rise (again, up), stand, take up

Reference gloss from Strong's Concordance (1890, public domain).

Key verses BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

Matthew 28:6 “He is not here; He has risen, just as He said! Come, see the place where He lay.” 1 Corinthians 15:4 “that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,” Romans 8:11 “And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.”

Original BibleDawn word study. Original-language data and the public-domain Strong's (1890) gloss are referenced; see sources.