Dictionary

Lazarus en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈlæzəɹəs/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

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.

Meanings

1. (figuratively, usually) A person who was deceased and has been resurrected; a deceased person who could potentially be resurrected.
   • 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[…]. 2010, Ippolito Desideri, translated by Michael J Sweet, Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri, page 598:
   • 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. 1855, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 105, page 302:
   • 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.
2. A poor person, a beggar.
   • 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? 2008, Charles McCollough, The Art of Parables, page 126:
   • These are the Lazaruses who lie prostrate at the gates of our cities and neighborhoods, and these are the needs that affluent Americans have conditioned themselves not to see because reaching out in any significant way would be far too costly. 2002, Stephen W. Plunkett, This We Believe: Eight Truths Presbyterians Affirm, page 109:
   • 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? 1706, George Fox, Gospel Truth Demonstrated, in a Collection of Doctrinal Books, volume 2, published 1831, page 273:

Forms

Synonyms

beggar (beggar) · pauper (poor person)

wikipedia: Luke 16 · wikipedia: John 12

Lazarus en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˈlæzəɹəs/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

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.

Meanings

1. Lazarus of Bethany, a man raised from the dead by Jesus Christ and later in Christianity revered as a saint.
   • I’ve always been moved by the story of Lazarus as it is recounted in the Gospel of John. The basic shape of the narrative is recognizable and relatable: Someone dies, and the heartbroken family pleads for their loss to be reversed. In the case of Lazarus, Christ is so moved by the family’s grief that he interferes with the natural order of things and grants an exception like no other: He brings the dead man back to life. This makes it an exemplar of a kind of cosmic partiality, what we would all hope for at our most wounded and vulnerable. Caravaggio pins the scene down to its material facts: the confused faces of the onlookers, the downcast faces of the sisters, the necrotic body of Lazarus, the supernatural authority of Christ. 2020 September 23, Teju Cole, “In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2020:
2. A beggar in a parable by Jesus Christ, traditionally (Christianity) thought to have been a leper and often conflated with Lazarus of Bethany.
3. (rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
4. (rare) A surname from Hebrew.
   • Ken Cuccinelli tweaked the famous poem from Emma Lazarus – whose words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” are long associated with immigration to the US and the nation’s history as a haven – as part of a case for strict new measures pushed Monday by the Trump administration that could dramatically change the legal immigration system. 2019 August 13, Devan Cole and Caroline Kelly, “Cuccinelli rewrites Statue of Liberty poem to make case for limiting immigration”, in CNN:

Deriveds

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

Descendants

拉札魯斯 · 拉札鲁斯

Relateds

lazar · lazaret · Lazarite · lazar house · lazaretto · Lazarist

Synonyms

Lazarus of Bethany · Saint Lazare · Saint Lazarus

Translations (57)

ar لَعَازَر (New Testament characters) · bg Лазар (New Testament characters) · vi La-da-rô (New Testament characters) · hy Ղազարոս (male given name) · chr ᎳᏏᎳ (New Testament characters) · pt Lázaro (New Testament characters) · tr Lazarus (New Testament characters) · no Lasarus (New Testament characters) · hi लाज़र (New Testament characters) · haw Lazaro (New Testament characters) · cmn 拉匝祿 /拉匝禄 (New Testament characters) · de Lazarus (New Testament characters) · he אֶלְעָזָר (male given name) · gd Làsaras (New Testament characters) · it Lazzaro (New Testament characters) · hy Ղազար (male given name) · pl Łazarz (New Testament characters) · ja ラザロ (New Testament characters) · nl Lazarus (New Testament characters) · sh Лазар (New Testament characters) · ru Ла́зарь (New Testament characters) · da Lazarus (New Testament characters) · hy Ղազար (New Testament characters) · et Laatsarus (New Testament characters) · it Lazzaro (male given name) · eo Lazaro (New Testament characters) · tr Lazarus (male given name) · ro Lazăr (male given name) · ka ლაზარე (New Testament characters) · cs Lazar (New Testament characters) · ru Ла́зарь (male given name) · hu Lázár (male given name) · la Lazarus (New Testament characters) · mt Lazzru (New Testament characters) · fi Lasarus (New Testament characters) · bg Лазар (male given name) · cmn 拉撒路 (New Testament characters) · es Lázaro (New Testament characters) · hy Ղազարոս (New Testament characters) · sh Lazar (New Testament characters) · pt Lázaro (male given name) · xag 𐔾𐔰𐔰𐔵𐔰𐕙 (New Testament characters) · fr Lazare (New Testament characters) · ro Lazăr (New Testament characters) · ca Llàtzer (male given name) · ko 나사로 (New Testament characters) · es Lázaro (male given name) · vi La-xa-rơ (New Testament characters) · ca Llàtzer (New Testament characters) · zdj Lazaro (New Testament characters) · swb Lazaro (New Testament characters) · grc Λάζαρος (New Testament characters) · haw Lakalo (male given name) · sv Lasaros (New Testament characters) · el Λάζαρος (New Testament characters) · izh Laazari (male given name) · he אֶלְעָזָר (New Testament characters)

wikipedia: Luke 16 · wikipedia: John 12

Lazarus en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈlæzəɹəs/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

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.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:African-American Vernacular, transitive) To rescue a dying person.
2. (qualifier:African-American Vernacular, transitive) To raise from the dead.

Forms

wikipedia: Luke 16 · wikipedia: John 12