Anorthoo means “make straight” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H461 — eliezer in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G461 ἀνορθόω (anorthoo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. anorthoo (an-orth-oh'-o) v. 1. to straighten up 2. to raise up It has 19 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include straight, set, and lift. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
anorthoo (an-orth-oh'-o) v. 1. to straighten up 2. to raise up [from G303 and a derivative of the base of G3717] KJV: lift (set) up, make straight Root(s): G303, G3717
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G461. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to restore
Usage: ἀν-ορθόω, -ῶ (ἀνά, ὀρθόω, to set straight, set up), [in LXX chiefly for כּוּן hi. ;] to set upright or straight again, restore: of persons, Luk.13:13, Heb.12:12; of things, σκηνήν, Act.15:16 (MM, VGT, see word; Cremer, 807).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render anorthoo, 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, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 G461 (ἀνορθόω) appears 16 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
14 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
He shall build for me a house to my name, and I will set up his throne even forever.
And his house shall be made sure, and his kingdom forever before me, and his throne shall be set up forever.
He shall build me a house, and I will set up his throne forever.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Again, there is another that is slow, and hath need of help, Wanting ability, and full of poverty; Yet the eye of the Lord looked upon him for good, And set him up from his low estate,
The talk of him that sweareth much maketh the hair stand upright; And their brawls make one stop his ears.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G461.
He shall build for me a house to my name, and I will set up his throne even forever.
And his house shall be made sure, and his kingdom forever before me, and his throne shall be set up forever.
He shall build me a house, and I will set up his throne forever.
And I will establish him in my house and in his kingdom forever; and his throne shall be set up forever.
And let thy name be established and magnified forever, men saying, Lord, Lord, Almighty God of Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.
He shall build a house to my name; and he shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom in Israel forever.
And thou hast made me secure in my salvation: And thy right hand has helped me, And thy correction has upheld me to the end; Yea, thy correction itself shall instruct me.
They are overthrown and fallen: But we are risen, and have been set upright.
And sets up all that are broken down.
The Lord gives wisdom to the blind: The Lord sets up the broken down: The Lord loves the righteous: The Lord preserves the strangers;
A house is built by wisdom, And is set up by understanding.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Thus saith the Lord, who made the earth and formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name;
increase; I have made thee as the springing grass of the field. So thou didst increase and grow, and didst enter into great cities: thy breasts were set, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Again, there is another that is slow, and hath need of help, Wanting ability, and full of poverty; Yet the eye of the Lord looked upon him for good, And set him up from his low estate,
The talk of him that sweareth much maketh the hair stand upright; And their brawls make one stop his ears.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G461, grouped by book.
Anorthoo (Strong's G461) is a Greek word most simply glossed "make straight". anorthoo (an-orth-oh'-o) v. 1. to straighten up 2. to raise up
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's G461 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G461 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 straight, set, and lift. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 14 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G461, with linked reader references where each row is available.