Illustrations of English words
derived from the Greek in the New Testament.

By Gaylon West.



STRONG'S DICTIONARY:
G386
From G450; a standing up again, that is, (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, general or by implication (its author)), or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth): - raised to life again, resurrection, rise from the dead, that should rise, rising again.


ETYMOLOGY of anglicized word:
fem. proper name, from fem. of Late Latin Anastasius, from Greek Anastasios, from anastasis "resurrection, a raising up of the dead;" literally "a setting up, a standing or rising up," from ana "up; again" (see ana-) + histanai "to cause to stand, to stand" from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see English "stet"). quoted from [www.etymonline.com].