- Transliteration: Egeiro

- Phonetic: eg-i'-ro

- Definition:

1. to arouse, cause to rise

a. to arouse from sleep, to awake

b. to arouse from the sleep of death, to recall the dead to life

c. to cause to rise from a seat or bed etc.

d. to raise up, produce, cause to appear

1. to cause to appear, bring before the public

2. to raise up, stir up, against one

3. to raise up i.e. cause to be born

4. of buildings, to raise up, construct, erect

- Origin: probably akin to the base of G58" class="dictionary-topic-link">G58 (through the idea of collecting one's faculties)

- TDNT entry: 07:33,2

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: Probably akin to the base of G58" class="dictionary-topic-link">G58 (through the idea of collecting one´ s faculties); to waken (transitively or intransitively) that is rouse (literally from sleep from sitting or lying from disease from death; or figuratively from obscurity inactivity ruins nonexistence): - awake lift (up) raise (again up) rear up (a-) rise (again up) stand take up.