ἐπαίρω

ἐπαίρω (s. αἴρω) 1 aor. ἐπῆρα, inf. ἐπᾶραι, impv. 2 sg. ἔπαρον (JosAs 17:6), ptc. ἐπάρας; pf. ἐπῆρκα J 13:18 v.l. Pass.: 1 fut. ἐπαρθήσομαι LXX; 1 aor. ἐπήρθην; pf. ptc. ἐπηρμένος LXX (Trag., Hdt.+).

① to cause to move upward, lift up, hold up τὶ someth. ῥάβδον a staff (Ex 10:13) Hv 3, 2, 4. τὸν ἀρτέμωνα Ac 27:40 s. on ἀρτέμων. ἐπῆρεν ὁ ποιμὴν τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ GJs 8:3 (not pap). Esp. in the expr. ἐ. χεῖρας lift up, raise the hands in prayer (Aesop, Fab. 49 P.=83 H./74 Ch./49 H-H.; Horapollo 1, 15 τ. χεῖρας εἰς οὐρανὸν ἐπαίροντα … προσευχόμενος τῇ θεῷ; 2 Esdr 18:6; Ps 133:2; for the idea cp. LvSybel, Christl. Antike I 1906, 256; 258; GAppel, De Romanorum Precationibus 1909, 194. Cp. also ἐκτείνω 1) 1 Ti 2:8, or in blessing (Sir 50:20; JosAs 8:9 τὴν χεῖρα) Lk 24:50. ἐ. τὰς κεφαλάς (w. ἀνακύπτειν) raise (your) heads (Philo, Op. M. 158; Jos., Bell. 1, 629; cp. ἐ. τὸ πρόσωπον 4 Km 9:32; αὐχένα Philo, Fug. 107) of people who regain their courage Lk 21:28. ἐ. τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς (Gen 13:10; 1 Ch 21:16 al.) look up Mt 17:8; Lk 16:23; J 4:35; 6:5; εἴς τινα Lk 6:20; εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν to heaven Lk 18:13 (En 13:5 οὐκέτι δύνανται … ἐπᾶραι τ. ὀφθ. εἰς τ. οὐρ. ἀπὸ αἰσχύνης περὶ ὧν ἡμαρτήκεισαν); J 17:1. ἐ. τὴν πτέρναν raise one’s heel to tread on someone 13:18 (ἐπί τινα as 1 Km 20:33). ἐ. τὴν φωνήν raise one’s voice (Demosth. 18, 291; Chariton 5, 7, 10; Philostrat., Vi. Apollon. 5, 33 p. 190, 21; Judg 2:4; 9:7; 2 Km 13:36) Lk 11:27; Ac 2:14; 14:11; 22:22.—Pass. be taken up Ac 1:9. Of the exaltation to heaven of those who endured 1 Cl 45:8.

② to offer resistance to, be in opposition, rise up ext. of mng. 1 (cp. in a difft. sense Just., A I, 58, 3 τῆς γῆς ‘from the earth’) ἐπί τινα or τι against or to someone or someth. (as 2 Esdr 4:19; 1 Macc 8:5; 10:70 TestJob 34:4 καθʼ ἡμῶν) ἐπὶ τὸ ποίμνιον 1 Cl 16:1. κατά τινος: πᾶν ὕψωμα ἐπαιρόμενον κατὰ τ. γνώσεως τ. θεοῦ 2 Cor 10:5 (ὕψωμα 2).

③ to suggest that one is better than one really is, be presumptuous, put on airs, abs. (Aristoph., Nub. 810; Thu. 4, 18, 4; Aeschin. 87, 24; Sir 11:4; 32:1; 1 Macc 2:63; Jos., Vi. 24) 2 Cor 11:20; 1 Cl 21:5. W. ὑπερυψοῦσθαι 14:5 (Ps 36:35). W. the dat. to denote the basis for the presumption (Hdt. 9, 49; Thu. 1, 120, 3; X., Cyr. 8, 5, 24; Appian, Bell. Civ. 5, 118 §489 ταῖς ναυσὶν ἐπαιρόμενος=proud of his fleet; Zeph 1:11; Philo, Mos. 1, 70; Jos., Ant. 9, 193) ἑαυτοὺς βουλόμενοι ἐπαίρεσθαι τ. διανοίαις αὐτῶν want to put on airs w. their imaginations 1 Cl 39:1 (cp. Appian, Liby. 111 §522 ἐπήρθησαν τοῖς φρονήμασι=they became presumptuous in their self-reliance).—DELG s.v. 1 ἀείρω. M-M. TW.