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διεγ-είρω ,
A.wake up, Anaxipp.1.47, J.AJ8.13.7, Hdn.2.1.5; stir up, arouse, LXX 2 Ma.7.21; excite, promote, “αὔξησιν φυτοῦ” Gp.9.3.7:—Pass., Hp.Ep.15, Arist.Pr.876a22, LXXEs.11.11, Ph.2.485, Longus 2.35; to be raised up from a sick-bed, AP11.171 (Lucill.); Ep. aor. διέγρετο ib.5.274 (Paul. Sil.).
II. raise, “τὸν αὐχένα” Hld. 4.4; “χώματα” J.BJ6.1.1, 6.2.7:—Pass., “πύλας διεγειρομένας εἰς ὕψος πηχῶν ἑβδομήκοντα” LXXJu.1.4; “τοῖς πηδήμασι πρὸς οὐρανὸν διεγειρεσθε μἐσον” Procop.Gaz.“ἠθοπ.ποιμένος” p.137B.
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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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 8.13.7
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 6.1.1
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 6.2.7
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 7.21
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