Word Summary
anastatoō: to stir up, unsettle
Original Word: ἀναστατόωTransliteration: anastatoō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-as-tat-o'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to stir up, unsettle
Meaning: to stir up, unsettle
Strong's Concordance
trouble, turn upside down, make an uproar.
From a derivative of anistemi (in the sense of removal); properly, to drive out of home, i.e. (by implication) to disturb (literally or figuratively) -- trouble, turn upside down, make an uproar.
see GREEK anistemi
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 387: ἀναστατόωἀναστατόω,
ἀναστάτω; 1 aorist
ἀνεστατωσα; a verb found nowhere in secular auth:, but (in
Daniel 7:23 the
Sept.;
Deuteronomy 29:27 Graecus Venetus) several times in the O. T. fragments of
Aq. (e. g.
Psalm 10:1) and
Symm. (e. g.
Psalm 58:11;
Isaiah 22:3), and in
Eustathius (from
ἀνάστατος, driven from one's abode, outcast, or roused up from one's situation; accordingly equivalent to
ἀναστατον ποιῶ),
to stir up, excite, unsettle; followed by an accusative a. to excite tumults and seditions in the State:
Acts 17:6;
Acts 21:38.
b. to upset, unsettle, minds by disseminating religious error: Galatians 5:12.