Words the Bible translates as stir up
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- tarassōταράσσωto agitate: to stir something into commotion, whether water, a person's heart, or a crowd
- saleuōσαλεύωto shake: to make something move back and forth, totter, or lose its firm footing.
- urעוּרto wake or rouse: to bring something from rest, sleep, or stillness into alertness and action, or to come awake oneself
- kineōκινέωto move something out of the position it holds: to budge it, shake it, carry it off, or set a crowd going.
- sutסוּתto incite: to move someone to a course of action by persuasion, provocation, or enticement
- garahגָּרָהto provoke conflict: to kindle strife or throw oneself into a quarrel or war against another
- akharעָכַרto bring ruin on a person or community by fouling their shared life, the way stirred mud clouds clear water until nothing is left safe or usable
- ragaרָגַעto stir water up: to set the sea heaving so that its waves roar
+3 more meanings
- to bring to a settled stop: to grant rest and relief, or to come to rest oneself
- in an instant: to happen in a flash, or to last no longer than a moment
- of diseased skin: to close over and harden into a crust
- anazōpureōἀναζωπυρέωto fan a dying ember back into open flame; to revive something that has cooled or grown faint
- sugkineōσυγκινέωto stir upnot studied yet
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