Lazarus Definition

lăzər-əs
noun
The brother of Mary and Martha, raised from the dead by Jesus: John 11
Webster's New World
The diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar: Luke 16:19-31
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pronoun

A man, the brother of Mary and Martha, who was according to the New Testament brought back to life by Jesus after being in the tomb for four days.

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A beggar mentioned in a parable told by Jesus Christ in the New Testament.

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(rare) A male given name.
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verb
(African American Vernacular) To rescue a dying person.
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(African American Vernacular) To raise from the dead.
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Origin of Lazarus

  • Via Late Latin Lazarus, from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lazaros), the New Testament Greek form of Secunda Hebrew אלעזר (ʼElʻāzār), literally “El has helped"; see Eleazar.

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Lazarus Sentence Examples

  • Throughout the game, you'll encounter victims of the bloodlust of Lazarus and his minions.

  • El-`Azariyeh is a poor village of about thirty families, with few marks of antiquity; there is no reason to believe that the houses of Mary and Martha and of Simon the Leper, or the sepulchre of Lazarus, still shown by the monks, have any claim to the names they bear.

  • The trouble was again revived by the repeal in 1790 of the confirming act 2 Several Scotch-Irish families from Lancaster (disambiguation)|Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, accepted Connecticut titles and settled at Hanover under Captain Lazarus Stewart.

  • Apart from the great interest of his philosophical work, Lazarus was pre-eminent among the Jews of the so-called Semitic domination in Germany.

  • In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Basilides saw the proof of naturam sine radice et sine loco rebus supervenientem (Acta Archelai).

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