Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to rebel against
Usage: ἐπ-αν-ίστημι [in LXX chiefly for קוּם ;] to raise up against; mid., to rise up against: before ἐπί, with accusative of person(s), Mat.10:21, Mrk.13:12.† (AS)
Epanistamai means “rise up against” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1881 — dath (“commandment”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1881 ἐπανίσταμαι (epanistamai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. epanistamai (ep-an-is'-tam-ai) v. 1. to stand up on 2. (figuratively) to attack It has 40 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include rise. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
epanistamai (ep-an-is'-tam-ai) v. 1. to stand up on 2. (figuratively) to attack [middle voice from G1909 and G450] KJV: rise up against Root(s): G1909, G450
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to rebel against
Usage: ἐπ-αν-ίστημι [in LXX chiefly for קוּם ;] to raise up against; mid., to rise up against: before ἐπί, with accusative of person(s), Mat.10:21, Mrk.13:12.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render epanistamai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1881 (ἐπανίσταμαι) appears 38 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
35 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But if there should be in thee a man hating his neighbor, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,
And the damsel has not committed a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbor, and slay him, so is this thing;
Bless, Lord, his strength, And accept the works of his hands; Break the loins of his enemies that have risen up against him, And let not them that hate him rise up.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Therefore the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtly with them, and brought them low with laboring in brick, and made them slaves.
For now is the time to help thine inheritance, and to execute my enterprise to the destruction of the enemies which are risen against us.
Woe to the nations that rise up against my kindred! The Lord Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgment, In putting fire and worms in their flesh; And they shall feel them, and weep forever.
First 40 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1881.
But if there should be in thee a man hating his neighbor, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,
And the damsel has not committed a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbor, and slay him, so is this thing;
Bless, Lord, his strength, And accept the works of his hands; Break the loins of his enemies that have risen up against him, And let not them that hate him rise up.
And Gideon the son of Joash said to all the men who rose up against him, Do ye now plead for Baal, or will ye save him? whoever will plead for him, let him be slain this morning: if he be a god let him plead for himself, because one has thrown down his altar.
and ye are risen up this day against the house of my father, and have slain his sons, being seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech the son of his bondwoman king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother:
Now Eli was ninety years old, and his eyes were fixed, and he saw not.
then I went forth after him, and smote him, and drew the spoil out of his mouth: and as he rose up against me, then I caught hold of his throat, and smote him, and slew him.
And behold the whole family rose up against thy handmaid, and they said, Give up the one that smote his brother, and we will put him to death for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and we will take away even your heir: so they will quench my coal that is left, so as not to leave my husband remnant or name on the face of the earth.
And the king said to Hushai, Is it well with the young man Absalom? and Hushai said, Let the enemies of my lord the king, and all whosoever have risen up against him for evil, be as that young man.
And thou shalt strengthen me with power for the war; Thou shalt cause them that rise up against me to bow down under me.
And Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of the Assyrians, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, deliver me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.
Wonder has seized true men upon this; And let the just rise up against the transgressor.
The very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.
And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, And the earth rise up against him.
Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, And they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.
Thieves have risen up against me,
They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; They have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.
O Lord, why are they that afflict me multiplied? Many rise up against me.
For thou hast girded me with strength for war: Thou hast beaten down under me all that rose up against me.
My deliverer from angry enemies: Thou shalt set me on high above them that rise up against me: Thou shalt deliver me from the unrighteous man.
Though an army should set itself in array against me, my heart shall not be afraid: Though war should rise up against me, in this am I confident.
Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; For unjust witnesses have risen up against me, And injustice has lied within herself.
In thee will we push down our enemies, And in thy name will we bring to nought them that rise up against us.
For strangers have risen up against me, And mighty men have sought my life: They have not set God before them. Pause.
Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; And ransom me from those that rise up against me.
O God, transgressors have risen up against me, And an assembly of violent men have sought my life; And have not set thee before them.
And mine eye has seen mine enemies, And mine ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me.
Let them curse, but thou shalt bless: Let them that rise up against me be ashamed, But let thy servant rejoice.
If it had not been that the Lord was among us, When men rose up against us;
And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus saith the Lord.
Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be frustrated; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,
The lips of them that rose up against me, And their plots against me all the day;
And now I will tell thee the truth. Behold, there shall yet rise up three kings in Persia: and the fourth shall be very far richer than all: and after that he is master of his wealth, he shall rise up against all the kingdoms of the Greeks.
And in those times many shall rise up against the king of the south; and the children of the spoilers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; and they shall fail.
For the son dishonors his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house shall be all a man’s enemies.
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
Therefore the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtly with them, and brought them low with laboring in brick, and made them slaves.
For now is the time to help thine inheritance, and to execute my enterprise to the destruction of the enemies which are risen against us.
Woe to the nations that rise up against my kindred! The Lord Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgment, In putting fire and worms in their flesh; And they shall feel them, and weep forever.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1881, grouped by book.
Epanistamai (Strong's G1881) is a Greek word most simply glossed "rise up against". epanistamai (ep-an-is'-tam-ai) v. 1. to stand up on 2. (figuratively) to attack
This page currently indexes 40 linked usages for Strong's G1881 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1881 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as rise. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 35 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1881, with linked reader references where each row is available.