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Lazarus

name
/ˈlæzəɹəs/US

Etymology

From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical figures mentioned in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various people in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar.

  1. derived from אֶלְעָזָר
  2. derived from Λᾱ́ζᾱρος
  3. borrowed from Lazarus

Definitions

  1. Lazarus of Bethany, a man raised from the dead by Jesus Christ and later Christianity…

    Lazarus of Bethany, a man raised from the dead by Jesus Christ and later Christianity revered as a saint.

  2. A beggar in a parable by Jesus Christ, traditionally (Christianity) thought to have been…

    A beggar in a parable by Jesus Christ, traditionally (Christianity) thought to have been a leper and often conflated with Lazarus of Bethany.

  3. A male given name from Hebrew.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A surname from Hebrew.

    2. A person who was dead and has been resurrected

      A person who was dead and has been resurrected; a dead person who could potentially be resurrected.

      • This was the classic age of all the various exhumations, restorations, and resurrections; it was a retrospective time — a time of ghosts and Lazaruses, more or less decomposed.
      • 1870, Edmond de Pressensé, Annie Harwood Holmden (translator), The Early Years of the Christian Church, Book 3: First Century, page 462, Those who hear the voice of the Son of man and live, are so many Lazaruses called to the life divine.
      • Finally, in whatever state or condition of life the faithful may find themselves, even if they cannot, like the apostles, assist the Lazaruses to rise from their tombs[…].

    3. A poor person, a beggar.

      • And do you not think, that all these poor Lazaruses, that you have persecuted, and do persecute, that when they die, they will not be carried into Abraham's bosom?
      • Do we respond to the poor Lazaruses in our midst with charity (scraps from our table), or do we seek to change the economic conditions that set up these extremes of rich and poor?

    4. To rescue a dying person.

    5. To raise from the dead.

The neighborhood

Derived

Bamforth-Lazarus syndrome, Lazarus effect, Lazarus Island, Lazarus layer, Lazarus sign, Lazarus species, Lazarus syndrome, Lazarus taxon

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA