Lexicon anastatoó: to stir up, unsettle Original Word: ἀναστατόωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: anastatoó Phonetic Spelling: (an-as-tat-o'-o) Short Definition: I turn upside down, upset, unsettle Definition: (perhaps a political metaphor), I turn upside down, upset, unsettle. HELPS word-Studies 387 anastatóō (literally, "change standing from going up to down"; see the root, 450 /anístēmi) – properly, turn something over (up to down), i.e. to upset (up-set), raising one part up at the expense of another which results in dislocation (confusion); to unsettle, make disorderly (dis-orderly). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom anastatos (driven from one's home) Definitionto stir up, unsettle NASB Translationstirred up a revolt (1), troubling (1), upset (1).
Thayer's 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.
Strong's 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 |
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