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Lexical Definition
Strong's Greek G1453
to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively, from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence)
KJV usage: :--awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-)rise (again, up), stand, take up.
Etymology: probably akin to the base of (through the idea of collecting one's faculties);
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
to excite, arouse, awaken, Mt. 8:25; mid. to awake, Mt. 2:13, 20, 21; met. mid. to rouse one’s self to a better course of conduct, Rom. 13:11; Eph. 5:14; to raise from the dead, Jn. 12:1; and mid. to rise from the dead, Mt. 27:52; Jn. 5:21; met. to raise as it were from the dead, 2 Cor. 4:14; to raise up, cause to rise up from a prone posture, Acts 3:7; and mid. to rise up, Mt. 17:7; to restore to health, Jas. 5:15; met. et seq. ἐπή, to excite to war; mid. to rise up against, Mt. 24:7; to raise up again, rebuild, Jn. 2:19, 20; to raise up from a lower place, to draw up or out of a ditch, Mt. 12:10; from Hebrew, to raise up, to cause to arise or exist, Acts 13:22, 23; mid. to arise, exist, appear, Mt. 3:9; 11:11