Dictionary entry

G00450

An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon Keyed to Strong's Numbers

ἀνίστημι

A. Causal in pres., imperf. "to make to stand up, raise up", χειρός "by" his hand. Il.:— "to raise from sleep, wake up", Il.: metaph., ἀν. νόσον Soph.:— "to raise from the dead", Il., Aesch.; from misery, Soph.

2. of things, "to set up, build", Hdt., etc.; so, ἀν. τινὰ χαλκοῦν "to set up" a bronze statue of him, Plut.;—aor1 mid., ἀναστήσασθαι πόλιν "to build oneself" a city, Hdt.

3. "to build up again, restore", Eur., Dem.

4. "to put up for sale", Hdt.

II. "to rouse to action, stir up", Il.:— "to rouse to arms, raise" troops, Thuc.; ἀν. πόλεμον ἐπί τινα Plut.

III. "to make" people "rise, break up" an assembly, Il., Xen.

2. "to make" people "rise" from their home, "make" them "emigrate, transplant", Od., Hdt., etc.

3. "to make" suppliants "rise and leave sanctuary", Hdt., Thuc.

4. of sportsmen, "to put up" game, "spring" it, Xen.

B. Intr. in pres. and imperf. ἀνίσταμαι, -μην, in fut. ἀναστήσομαι, in aor2 ἀνέστην, perf. ἀνέστηκα, attic plup. ἀνεστήκη; also in aor1 pass. ἀνεστάθην [α]:— "to stand up, rise", to speak, Hom., etc.:— "to rise from one's seat" as a mark of respect, Lat. assurgere, Il.:— "to rise from bed", id=Il., etc.:— "to rise from the dead", id=Il.:— "to rise from" an illness, "recover", Hdt.

2. "to rise" as a champion, Il., Soph.: c. dat. "to stand up" to fight against, τινι Il.; πᾶσιν ὃς ἀνέστη θεοῖς Aesch.

3. of buiildings and statues, "to be set up, to rise up, rear itself", Eur., Plut., etc.

4. of a river, "to rise", Plut.

II. "to rise to go, set out, go away", Eur., Thuc., etc.

2. "to be compelled to migrate", Thuc.; of a country, "to be depopulated", Hdt., Eur.; οὐκέτι ἀνισταμένη no longer "subject to migration", Thuc.

3. of a law-court, "to rise", Dem.

4. of game, "to be put up", Xen.