To (cause to) arise
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G393 is a Greek verb for rising, arising, dawning, or causing something to rise. The New Testament uses it for the sun, a cloud, light, the morning star, and the emergence of a person from a particular lineage.
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G393 is a Greek verb for rising, arising, dawning, or causing something to rise. The New Testament uses it for the sun, a cloud, light, the morning star, and the emergence of a person from a particular lineage.
The BSB source-word alignment has 9 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include rises (2), rose (2), . . . (1), descended (1), has dawned (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 4:16. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (3), Mark (2), 2 Peter (1), Hebrews (1).
G393 is a Greek verb for rising, arising, dawning, or causing something to rise. The New Testament uses it for the sun, a cloud, light, the morning star, and the emergence of a person from a particular lineage. In Matthew 5:45, Jesus says the Father causes His sun to rise on evil and good people alike, grounding enemy-love in God's generous providence rather than in the worthiness of the recipient.
Hebrews 7:14 says the Lord arose from Judah, using the verb for His historical emergence from a tribe to which Moses assigned no priests, a fact central to the argument about Christ's distinct priesthood. Second Peter 1:19 pictures the morning star rising in believers' hearts as they attend to the confirmed prophetic word until the day dawns. G393 does not make every sunrise a resurrection symbol or every emergence a promise of success.
It names rising or appearing, while the subject and context supply the theological force. It opens teaching on common grace, Christ's messianic identity, patient attention to Scripture, and the difference between physical rising and canonical metaphor.
G393 describes the rising of the sun and clouds, the dawning of light, the arising of the Lord from Judah, and the morning star rising in the heart. Concrete natural events furnish imagery, but the verb itself remains broad. The surrounding argument determines whether the focus is providence, lineage, revelation, judgment, endurance, or spiritual illumination.
That you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Jesus grounds love for enemies in the Father's indiscriminate providential kindness, seen as He causes the sun to rise on evil and good people.
For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, a tribe as to which Moses said nothing about priests.
The author notes that the Lord arose from Judah, establishing the tribal fact that frames the argument for a priesthood different from the Levitical order.
We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
Believers are told to attend to the confirmed prophetic word as to a lamp in darkness until the day dawns and the morning star rises in their hearts.
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Greek word. to (cause to) arise
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
9 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 9 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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G393 gives the New Testament a flexible verb for rising that becomes theologically important through its subject. The Father's sun rises on evil and good alike, so disciples imitate His generosity by loving enemies; common providence displays kindness without erasing the final distinction between righteousness and evil. Jesus arises from Judah as a concrete matter of lineage, and Hebrews uses that fact to show that His priesthood cannot be derived from the Mosaic arrangement for Levi.
Second Peter draws on dawn and the morning star to describe the sure hope toward which attentive reading of the prophetic word directs believers. James also uses the rising sun and withering heat to expose the fragility of wealth. None of these claims comes from a hidden meaning inside the motion of rising. The passage identifies the sun, the Messiah, the cloud, the light, or the eschatological hope in view.
Faithful teaching can therefore receive creation's daily rhythms as testimony to God's providence, confess the Lord who truly came from Judah, and wait for final daybreak without treating a lexical image as a timetable. The verb names emergence; Scripture names its significance.
Matt.5.45
G393 can be transitive, meaning to cause something to rise, or intransitive, meaning to rise or appear. Its subjects include the sun, light, a cloud, the morning star, and the Lord's emergence from Judah, so syntax and subject identify the appropriate sense.
Old Testament dawn, light, royal, and priestly promises prepare the canonical setting in which the New Testament speaks of Christ from Judah and the awaited day. Those themes illuminate G393 in Hebrews and Second Peter, but they do not turn every Hebrew verb for shining or arising into a lexical equivalent. The connection is canonical fulfillment governed by each passage.