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Strong's #339 - ἀνακαθίζω
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- to raise one's self and sit upright, to sit up, erect
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ἀνακᾰθίζω,
I set up: whence Med., sit up, εἰς τὴν κλίνην Pl. Phd. 60b.
II intr., sit up, Hp. Prog. 3, Aen.Tact. 27.8; δὶς ἑπτὰ[μησὶν] -ει [τὰ βρέφη ] Theol.Ar. 48; of a hare listening, X. Cyn. 5.7.
ἀνακαθίζω: 1 aorist ἀνεκάθισα; to raise oneself and sit upright; to sit up, sit erect: Luke 7:15 (Lachmann marginal reading WH marginal reading ἐκάθισεν); Acts 9:40. (Xenophon, cyn. 5, 7, 19; Plutarch, Alex c. 14; and often in medical writings; with ἑαυτόν, Plutarch, Philop c. 20; middle in same sense, Plato, Phaedo c. 3, p. 60 b.)
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* ἀνα -καθ -ίζω
(see καθίζω );
1. trans., to set up.
2. Intrans., to sit up: Luke 7:15 (W Η , mg., ἐκάθισεν ), Acts 9:40 (freq. in medical writings: MM, VGT, s.v.).†
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This term, common in medical writings (Luke 7:15 Acts 9:40), is found in a Christian letter of iv/A.D., which is full of NT echoes—P Oxy VI. 939.25 (= Selections, p. 130) ἔδοξεν. . . ἀνεκτότερον ἐσχηκέναι ἀνακαθεσ ̣θ ̣εῖσα, νοσηλότερον δὲ ὅμως τὸ σωμάτιον ἔχει, ";she seems . . . to be in a more tolerable state in that she has sat up, but nevertheless she is still in a somewhat sickly state of body."; See Hobart, p. 11 f.
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