Definition

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)

Etymology

probably akin to the base of G58 (ἀγορά) (through the idea of collecting one's faculties);

Where the KJV renders it

• awake
• lift (up)
• raise (again
• up)
• rear up
• (a-)rise (again
• stand
• take up

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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