Anastatóō — G387

Definition

verb

properly, to drive out of home, i.e. (by implication) to disturb (literally or figuratively)

1. to upset, unsettle, minds by disseminating religious error

Usually translated as

trouble, make an uproar, turn upside down

Origin

from a derivative of G450 (in the sense of removal)

• anístēmi (G450)

Occurrences

Anastatóō occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Acts (2), Galatians (1)

• Acts 17:6 — And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down (ἀναστατώσαντες) are come hither also;
• Acts 21:38 — Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar (ἀναστατώσας), and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
• Galatians 5:12 — I would they were even cut off which trouble (ἀναστατοῦντες) you.