Word Summary
anakathizō: to set up, to sit up
Original Word: ἀνακαθίζωTransliteration: anakathizō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ak-ath-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to set up, to sit up
Meaning: to set up, to sit up
Strong's Concordance
sit up.
From ana and kathizo; properly, to set up, i.e. (reflexively) to sit up -- sit up.
see GREEK ana
see GREEK kathizo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 339: ἀνακαθίζωἀνακαθίζω: 1 aorist
ἀνεκάθισα;
to raise oneself and sit upright; to sit up, sit erect:
Luke 7:15 (Lachmann marginal reading
WH marginal reading
ἐκάθισεν);
Acts 9:40. (
Xenophon, cyn. 5, 7, 19;
Plutarch, Alex c. 14; and often in medical writings; with
ἑαυτόν,
Plutarch, Philop c. 20; middle in same sense,
Plato, Phaedo c. 3, p. 60 b.)