Word Summary
diagrēgoreō: to keep awake, to be fully awake
Original Word: διαγρηγορέωTransliteration: diagrēgoreō
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ag-ray-gor-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to keep awake, to be fully awake
Meaning: to keep awake, to be fully awake
Strong's Concordance
be awake.
From dia and gregoreuo; to waken thoroughly -- be awake.
see GREEK dia
see GREEK gregoreuo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1235: διαγρηγορέωδιαγρηγορέω,
διαγρηγόρω: 1 aorist
διεγρηγόρησα;
to watch through, (
Herodian, 3, 4, 8 (4, Bekker edition)
πάσης τῆς νυκτός ...
διαγρηγορήσαντες,
Niceph. Greg. Hist. Byz., p. 205 f. and 571 a.);
to remain awake:
Luke 9:32 (for they had overcome the force of sleep, with which they were weighed down,
βεβαρημένοι ὕπνῳ); (others (e. g.,
R. V. text)
to be fully awake, cf. Niceph. as above, p. 205 f.
δόξαν ἀπεβαλομην ὥσπερ οἱ διαγρηγορήσαντες τά ἐν τοῖς ὑπνοῖς ὀνειρατα;
Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 11f).