Word Summary
anorthoō: to set upright, set straight again
Original Word: ἀνορθόωTransliteration: anorthoō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-orth-o'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to set upright, set straight again
Meaning: to set upright, set straight again
Strong's Concordance
set up, make straight, restore
From ana and a derivative of the base of orthos; to straighten up -- lift (set) up, make straight.
see GREEK ana
see GREEK orthos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 461: ἀνορθόωἀνορθόω,
ἀνόρθω: future
ἀνορθώσω; 1 aorist
ἀνωρθωσα; 1 aorist passive
ἀνωρθωθην (
Luke 13:13; without the augment
ἀνορθωθην L T Tr; cf. (
WHs Appendix, p. 161);
Buttmann, 34 (30); (
Winer's Grammar, 73) (70));
1. to set up, make erect: a crooked person, Luke 13:13 (she was made straight, stood erect); drooping hands and relaxed knees (to raise them up by restoring their strength), Hebrews 12:12.
2. to rear again, build anew: ἀκηνην, Acts 15:16 (Herodotus 1, 19 τόν νηον ... τόν ἐνέπρησαν; 8, 140; Xenophon, Hell. 4, 8, 12, etc.; in various senses in the Sept.).