διεγερθεὶς (diegertheis) in Matthew 1:24: Verb Aorist Passive Participle Nominative Singular Masculine

Verb: this participial form comes from a verb and describes an action in relation to the main clause.

Aorist: commonly views the action as a whole event. It should not be treated as automatically punctiliar or automatically past in every context.

Passive: presents the subject as receiving or being affected by the action.

Participle: carries a verbal idea while also functioning like an adjective or clause element. Context decides its role.

Nominative: the participle is shaped to agree with the subject it describes, here matching Joseph in the clause.

Singular: the form is singular here, so it refers to one participant rather than a group.

Masculine: the form agrees with a masculine noun in context, and this grammatical class does not itself make a theological gender claim.

It is attached to ὁ Ἰωσὴφ and introduces Joseph's state before the main actions.

The participle is governed by agreement with the subject and by the flow of the sentence, so it functions as a circumstantial descriptor rather than a separate main verb.

It presents Joseph as having been awakened from sleep, setting the time or circumstance for what he then did.

It is not the main assertion of the verse, and it does not by itself say who caused the waking or add a new event beyond the narrative flow.

High: The participle sets the circumstance for Joseph waking and obeying the angel's command.

Circumstantial nominative participle. sets the temporal circumstance before Joseph obeys. Attached to Joseph as the subject of the sentence. Governed by the narrative sequence before Joseph acts. The passive form should not be used to speculate about agency beyond the narrative.

What happens before Joseph obeys? Joseph is awakened from sleep, and then he does as the angel commanded.

Direct: The participle directly supports a temporal rendering such as when Joseph woke or after being awakened.

The participle relation is temporal or circumstantial in context, not a separate main verb. Passive morphology indicates being awakened, but the form alone should not be used to identify the agent.

Aorist means once-for-all completed action: The aorist participle presents the waking as background to Joseph's following action. passive voice proves divine agency: Agency must come from the narrative context, not from passive morphology alone.

The witness reads διεγερθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰωσὴφ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕπνου, which places the participle directly before Joseph and his rising from sleep.

The lemma διεγείρω means to arouse or wake up, so the form carries the sense of being awakened rather than acting independently.

Its participial shape links the waking to Joseph as background information, while the main clause carries the narrative action.

The verse says that after Joseph was awakened from sleep, he carried out what the angel of the Lord had commanded.

This fits the wider narrative pattern of obedience following divine instruction, with grammar supporting the sequence rather than controlling the theology.

For readers and teachers, the form helps show sequence and circumstance: Joseph wakes, then obeys.

Do not derive that the participle alone explains the cause of the waking, changes the meaning of the lemma, or carries the whole sentence by itself.