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Greek verb · G397

ἀνατρέφω

anatrephoan-at-ref'-o

to bring up

3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: anatréphō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G397is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 3
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G397

to rear (physically or mentally)

The King James renders it: bring up, nourish (up).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

anatrepho is rendered "to bring up". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.

  • Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 7:20At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
  • The Greek text spells it three different ways.

The first use

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.

Acts 7:20ἀνετράφη

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Three of the word's three uses are in Acts.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • brought up2
  • was brought up1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἀνατολήanatoleeastUses10
ἀνατέλλωanatelloto riseUses9
ἀνατρέπωanatrepoto overturnUses3
ἀνατίθεμαιanatithemaito set beforeUses2
ἀνατάσσομαιanatassomaito compileUses1

All 3, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

3 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἀνατεθραμμένος1
  • ἀνεθρέψατο1
  • ἀνετράφη1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-2API-3S
  • verb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AMI-3S
  • verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-RPP-NSM

Acts

three uses
  • At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.

    Acts 7:20

    • ἀνετράφηanetrapheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was brought up
  • When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

    Acts 7:21

    • ἀνεθρέψατοanethrepsatoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: brought up
  • “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.

    Acts 22:3

    • ἀνατεθραμμένοςanatethrammenosverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: brought up

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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