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ἀνά-στα^σις , εως, Ion. ιος, ἡ,
I. Act., (ἀνίστημι) making to stand or rise up, raising up the dead, “ἀνδρὸς δ᾽ ἐπειδὰν αἷμ᾽ ἀνασπάσῃ κόνις . . οὔτις ἔστ᾽ ἀ.” A.Eu.648; “ἔλαβον . . ἐξ ἀναστάσεως τοὺς νεκροὺς αὐτῶν” Ep.Heb.11.35.
2. making to rise and leave their place, removal, as of suppliants, “ἀ. ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ” Th.1.133; ἀ. τῆς Ἰωνίας removal of the Greeks from Ionia [for safety], Hdt.9.106: mostly in bad sense, desolation, “ἅλωσιν Ἰλίου τ᾽ ἀνάστασιν” A.Ages.589; “πόλεων ἀ.” Id.Pers. 107, cf. E.Tr.364; “τῆς πατρίδος” D.1.5; disturbance, Hp.Decent..3 (pl.).
3. setting up, erection, “τειχῶν” D.20.72; “τροπαίου” Plu. 2.873a; “εἰκόνος” GDI3505.20 (Cnidus), cf. IPE12.34.8 (Olbia), Arr. An.4.11.2; “οἰκοδομημάτων” Luc.Phal.1.3 (pl.).
II. (ἀνίσταμαι) standing or rising up, “πόδες ἀναστάσεως χάριν” Arist.Spir.485a18, cf. Id.Fr.156.
2. rising and moving off, removal, “στρατεύματος” Th. 7.75, cf. 2.14.
3. rising up, “ἐξ ὕπνου” S.Ph.276.
b. esp. for the stool, dub. in Hp.Epid.6.7.1: hence, motions, Id.Coac.605, Dieuch. ap.Orib.4.6.2.
c. rising again after a fall, Ev.Luc.2.34.
d. rising from the dead, “Τυνδάρεω” Luc.Salt.45; εἰς ἀνάστασιν [fort. βλέποντες] IGRom.4.743 (Eumeneia, iii A.D.): freq. in N.T., Ev.Matt. 22.23, al.; “ἀ. νεκρῶν” Act.Ap.23.6; “ἀ. ζωῆς, κρίσεως” Ev.Jo.5.29; “ἀπὸ σώματος ἀ.” Plot.3.6.6.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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