ἀνάστασις

Matthew 22:23 ἀνάστασιν a resurrection

That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.

Here: Literally a "standing up again." Here it means the dead being raised bodily at the end of the age. It sets up the wordplay in the next verse, where the brother must "raise up" (anastēsei) offspring.

Matthew 22:28 ἀναστάσει resurrection

In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For all of them were married to her.”

Here: Literally 'a standing up again'. It means dead people raised bodily at the end of the age. The Sadducees use the word with sarcasm, because they deny it happens at all (v. 23).

Matthew 22:30 ἀναστάσει resurrection

In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.

Here: The bodily raising of the dead in the age to come. This is the doctrine the Sadducees denied and tried to make look ridiculous.

Matthew 22:31 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:

Here: Literally a "standing up again": the future raising of dead people to bodily life. This was the exact doctrine the Sadducees denied (22:23).

Mark 12:18 ἀνάστασιν a resurrection

Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him:

Mark 12:23 ἀναστάσει resurrection

In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be? For all seven were married to her.”

Luke 2:34 ἀνάστασιν rising up

Then Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary: “Behold, this Child is appointed to cause the rise and fall of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against,

Here: A standing up, rising. Elsewhere in the New Testament almost always 'resurrection'; here it means being lifted up and restored, though Christian readers would hear a hint of the later word.

Luke 14:14 ἀναστάσει resurrection

and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Here: The bodily rising of the dead at the end of the age. Jesus' Pharisee host held this hope (see v.1), so this is common ground at the table.

Luke 20:27 ἀνάστασιν a resurrection

Then some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to question Him.

Luke 20:33 ἀναστάσει, resurrection,

So then, in the resurrection, whose wife will she be? For all seven were married to her.”

Luke 20:35 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.

Here: Literally a 'standing up again', meaning bodily rising from death. This is exactly the belief the Sadducees questioning Jesus denied.

Luke 20:36 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.

Here: The bodily raising of the dead at the end of the age. This is the very thing the Sadducees denied (v.27).

John 5:29 ἀνάστασιν ἀνάστασιν [the] resurrection

and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Here: Literally a 'standing up again': the bodily rising of the dead at the end of the age, the hope held by Pharisees and many Jews of the time.

John 11:24 ἀναστάσει resurrection

Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

Here: The noun from the same root as the verb before it: "he will rise in the rising." It means the general bodily raising of the dead that God was expected to carry out at the end.

John 11:25 ἀνάστασις resurrection

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

Here: Literally “a standing up again.” In Jewish hope it meant the dead getting up out of the grave at the end of the age. Jesus says he is that rising, in person.

Acts 1:22 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

Here: Literally a "standing up again". It means Jesus' bodily return from death, which is the core of what the witness will testify to.

Acts 2:31 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

Acts 4:2 ἀνάστασιν resurrection

greatly disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

Here: Literally a 'standing up again': the bodily raising of the dead. Sadducees rejected this teaching, so the subject itself was provocative.

Acts 4:33 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

With great power the apostles continued to give their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And abundant grace was upon them all.

Here: The content of the testimony: Jesus' bodily rising from the dead. The Sadducean leaders had just arrested the apostles for proclaiming exactly this (4:2).

Acts 17:18 ἀνάστασιν resurrection

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

Here: Literally 'standing up again'. Paul meant the bodily raising of the dead, beginning with Jesus. Both schools present ruled that idea out.

Acts 17:32 ἀνάστασιν a resurrection

When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”

Here: Literally “a standing up (again).” Applied to the dead, it means corpses rising to bodily life. There is no article, so it reads like a category: “a resurrection of dead people.” That is what provoked the response.

Acts 23:6 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

Here: Literally 'standing up again': the bodily raising of the dead at the end of the age, the point Pharisees affirmed and Sadducees denied.

Acts 23:8 ἀνάστασιν resurrection

For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection nor angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

Acts 24:15 ἀνάστασιν [that] a resurrection

and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

Here: The dead rising bodily at the end. This is the content of the hope, and the issue Paul says he is really on trial for (23:6; 24:21).

Acts 24:21 ἀναστάσεως [the] resurrection

unless it was this one thing I called out as I stood in their presence: ‘It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’”

Acts 26:23 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

Here: The resurrection of the dead that Israel hoped for at the end of the age, the 'hope of the promise' Paul says he is on trial for (26:6–8).

Romans 1:4 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Here: Literally a 'standing up again'. In Jewish hope it meant the bodily rising of the dead at the end of the age. It also echoes God's promise to David, 'I will raise up your offspring' (2 Sam 7:12).

Romans 6:5 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.

Here: Literally a "standing up again". In Jewish hope it meant the bodily rising of the dead. Here it is Christ's rising, which believers will share. Greek leaves out "his", but the sense is clear.

1 Corinthians 15:12 ἀνάστασις a resurrection

But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Here: Literally a 'standing up again'. Here it means dead people coming back to bodily life. With no 'the', it names the whole category: 'such a thing as resurrection'.

1 Corinthians 15:13 ἀνάστασις a resurrection

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

Here: Literally 'a standing up (again)'. Here it means dead people being brought back to bodily life. Paul repeats word for word the slogan some Corinthians were using (v.12): 'there is no anastasis of the dead.'

1 Corinthians 15:21 ἀνάστασις resurrection

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.

Here: Literally "a standing up again": the dead rising bodily. It does not mean the soul surviving after death. Paul's whole argument in ch. 15 is about the raising of the body, changed in the raising.

1 Corinthians 15:42 ἀνάστασις resurrection

So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.

Here: Literally 'a standing up again'. It means the dead coming back to bodily life, not the soul surviving death. Paul's question in this section is not whether it happens but what kind of body comes out of it (15:35).

Philippians 3:10 ἀναστάσεως resurrection

I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,

Here: Christ's own bodily rising from the dead. Verse 11 uses the stronger compound exanastasis for the believers' future 'resurrection out from among the dead'. Christ's resurrection is the source, and theirs is the goal.

2 Timothy 2:18 ἀνάστασιν resurrection

who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.

Hebrews 6:2 ἀναστάσεώς about [the] resurrection

instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Here: Literally "a standing up again": the dead rising bodily at the end of the age, a core hope of first-century Judaism that Christians shared and rooted in Jesus' own resurrection.

Hebrews 11:35 ἀναστάσεως ἀναστάσεως resurrection

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

Here: A 'rising up' from death. In this case it means a return to ordinary mortal life: the boys would die again later. The verse uses the same word again at the end with 'better' attached, which sets up the contrast.

1 Peter 1:3 ἀναστάσεως [the] resurrection

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Here: 'Standing up again': a dead body raised back to life. This is what Jews expected for the righteous at the end of the age, and here it has happened to Jesus ahead of time.

1 Peter 3:21 ἀναστάσεως [the] resurrection

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Here: Christ's bodily rising from the dead. Peter already said believers were 'born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ' (1:3), using the same phrase. That rising is where baptism's saving power comes from.

Revelation 20:5 ἀνάστασις resurrection

The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.

Here: Literally a 'standing up'. In Jewish and early Christian use it was the standard word for the dead rising. These are its only two appearances in Revelation (here and 20:6).

Revelation 20:6 ἀναστάσει resurrection

Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

Here: Literally 'a standing up again'. In Jewish and Christian usage it was the dead rising to life. This is the only place Revelation uses the noun (20:5–6).