Lazarus

Definitions: Lazarus

Lazarus

Noun

1. The person who Jesus raised from the dead after four days in the tomb; this miracle caused the enemies of Jesus to begin the plan to put him to death.

2. The diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar.

"Lazarus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "assistance of God", "God helps me".

Date "Lazarus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Lazarus

Domain	Definitions
Bible	Lazarus an abbreviation of Eleazar, whom God helps. (1.) The brother of Mary and Martha of Bethany. He was raised from the dead after he had lain four days in the tomb (John 11:1-44). This miracle so excited the wrath of the Jews that they sought to put both Jesus and Lazarus to death. (2.) A beggar named in the parable recorded Luke 16:19-31. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Lazarus

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lazarus raised from the grave by Jesus, painting
by the Swedish artist Karl Isakson (c. 1920)

Lazarus is a person mentioned several times in the four Gospel books of the New Testament. According to the New Testament, Lazarus lived in the town of Bethany with his sisters Mary and Martha. He is best known for being raised from the grave four days after his death by Jesus Christ, according to Chapter 11 of the Gospel of John. Again according to this gospel, many Jews visited Lazarus after this and believed in Jesus in part because of Lazarus' resurrection, and some of the Jewish leaders made plans to kill him.

According to Christian tradition, Lazarus was a Jewish Pharisee, but because of the rumoured plots fled for his life to Cyprus, where he later became a Christian bishop and lived another thirty years. Stories say that he would always include something sweet in every meal, but that he was only known to laugh once in that time. That was when he observed someone stealing a clay pot, causing him to smile and say with a laugh, "clay stealing clay".

Today Lazarus is honored as a saint by all Christians who honor saints. The transfer of his relics from Cyprus to Constantinople in 898 is remembered each year on October 17. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Saturday before Palm Sunday is remembered as "Lazarus Saturday", and the scripture readings and hymns focus on Lazarus as a promise of the resurrection of all.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lazarus."

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Crosswords: Lazarus

English words defined with "Lazarus": Lazzaroni. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Lazarus": Ephraim in the wilderness. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lazarus

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Now, even the doggy-doggies used to come to Lazarus to lick his open running sores (Godspell; writing credit: David Greene; John-Michael Tebelak)
Movie/TV Titles	Dalziel and Pascoe: A Sweeter Lazarus (2000) The Lazarus Man (1996) Cold Lazarus (1996) Lazarus (1994) The Lazarus Syndrome (1978)
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Commercial Usage: Lazarus

Domain	Title
Books	Serpent's Tooth: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (reference) The Forgotten: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (reference) The Lazarus Case (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Lazarus

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Photo Album: Lazarus

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	West Warmsprings horses on the range near "Lazarus" bend.Credit: Mark Armstrong.		Lazarus" and part of his band in West Warm Springs HMA.Credit: Mark Armstrong.
	Lazarus, the dominant Stallion in West Warm Springs HMA.Credit: Mark Armstrong.		East Warm Springs Herd Management Area with wild horses. Lazarus Band near Burns, Oregon.Credit: Mark Armstrong.
	Lazarus," the dominant stallion in East Warm Springs Herd Management Area in the Burns District, Oregon.Credit: Mark Armstrong.		Church of Lazarus (at Gorbachev Cemetery) (1775-90, 1887), north facade, Vologda, Russia.Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.
	Raising of Lazarus.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Lazarus

Subject	Topic	Quote
Minorities	Ukraine	In 1999 in Crimea, Bishop Lazarus of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate, announced an initiative to place 1,000 crosses around Crimea to celebrate the second millennium of the birth of Jesus and a millennium of the Christianization of Kievan Rus. (references)
	Ukraine	Local Tatars, who were not consulted about the placement of the cross, removed it. Through dialog Bishop Lazarus, Crimean Mufti Ablayev, Orthodox residents, and the local Crimean Tatar Mejlis (Council) were able to come to a peaceful settlement of the conflict over this cross by relocating it to a nearby hill overlooking a predominantly Orthodox community. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Lazarus

"Lazarus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "Lazarus" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	61.54%	32	61,292
Noun (proper)	34.62%	18	82,615
Noun (plural)	3.85%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	52	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Lazarus

The following table summarizes the usage of "Lazarus" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Lazarus	Last name	2,000	7,265
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Lazarus

"Lazarus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "assistance of God", "God helps me".

The following table summarizes names related to "Lazarus."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Eleazar	Male	Biblical	Eliezer
Eliezer	Male	Biblical	N/A
Lazarus	N/A	Biblical	N/A
Lazarus	Male	Biblical	Eleazar
Lazare	Male	French	Lazarus
Lázár	Male	Hungarian	Lazarus
Lazzaro	Male	Italian	Lazarus
Lazar	Male	Russian	Lazarus
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Expression: Lazarus

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Lazarus": lazarus-like.
	Ending with "Lazarus": Dives-lazarus.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lazarus

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
lazarus	1,840
lazarus department store	756
lazarus store	190
lazarus bridal registry	76
emma lazarus	57
furniture lazarus	52
lazarus gift registry	31
lazarus registry wedding	30
department lazarus	20
arnold lazarus	19
lazarus registry	18
lazarus shopping	17
lazarus wedding	17
lady lazarus	15
lazarus bridal	13
lazarus long	10
lazarus and the rich man	10
ken lazarus	10
richard lazarus	8
house lazarus	8
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Modern Translations: Lazarus

Language		Translations for "Lazarus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i varfër (bad, beggarly, destitute, fortuneless, impecunious, indigent, lame, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, miserable, one horse, penurious, poor, spare, squalid, wretched), i gërbulët (leprous). (various references)

Bulgarian		просяк (beggar, mendicant, panhandler, pauper), прокажен (leper, leprous). (various references)

Czech		lazar. (various references)

Greek		λάζαροσ. (various references)

Hungarian		lázár. (various references)

Pig Latin		azaruslay

Portuguese		tipo (beggar, bird, bugger, cod, description, font, joking, josser, kind, letter, nomenclatural type, normal, persona, phylum, portrait, sort, specimen, type, type specimen), sujeito (beggar, bloke, bound, bugger, cod, guy, individual, subject), pobre (almsman, beggar, beggarly, close-fisted, destitute, elegance, hard set, hungry, indigested, jejune, lean, mean, mendicant, miserable, necessitous, needy child, pauperism, penniless, penurious, poor, shabby), pedinte (beggar, cadger, mendicant, mumpish, panhandlers, pauper, peddlar, tramp), estação de quarentena. (various references)

Russian		нищий (almsman, beggar, dog poor, mendicant, mumper, panhandler, pauper), прокаженный (leper, leprous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		gubav (leper, leprous). (various references)

Spanish		lázaro. (various references)

Ukranian		жебрак (abraham-man, beggar, cadger, canter, eleemosynary, mendicant, needy, panhandler, scrounger), прокажений (leper). (various references)

Vietnamese		người h� nh khất (lazar, mumper), người ăn m� y (beggar, lazar, mumper). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Lazarus

Language	Date	Source	John Chapter 11, Verse 14
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Tote oun eipen autoiV o ihsouV parrhsia lazaroV apeqanen
Latin	405	Vulgate	Tunc ergo dixit eis Iesus manifeste Lazarus mortuus est
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ða cwæð se hælend openlice to heom. Lazarus ys dead.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Thanne therfor Jhesus seide to hem opynli, Lazarus is deed;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Then sayde Iesus vnto the playnly Lazarus is deed
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Then said Jesus to them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead.
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Matched Bible Translations: Lazarus

Language	John Chapter 11, Verse 14
Bulgarian	Няма да ви оставя сираци; ще дойда при вас.
Cebuano	Busa si Jesus misulti kanila sa walay lipodlipod, "Si Lazaro namatay.
Chinese	耶穌就明明的告訴他們說、拉 �'' 路死了。
Croatian	Tada im Isus reèe posve otvoreno: "Lazar je umro.
Danish	Derfor sagde da Jesus dem rent ud: "Lazarus er død!
Dutch	Toen zeide dan Jezus tot hen vrijuit: Lazarus is gestorven.
Finnish	Silloin Jeesus sanoi heille suoraan: "Lasarus on kuollut,
French	Alors Jésus leur dit ouvertement: Lazare est mort.
German	Da sagte es ihnen Jesus frei heraus: Lazarus ist gestorben;
Haitian Creole	Lè sa a, Jezi di yo klè: Laza mouri.
Hungarian	Ekkor azért nyilván monda nékik Jézus: Lázár megholt.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Karena itu Yesus berkata kepada mereka dengan terus terang, "Lazarus sudah mati.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Lalu berkatalah Yesus kepada mereka itu dengan terus terang, "Lazarus sudah mati.
Italian	Allora Gesù disse loro apertamente: «Lazzaro è morto
Korean	이 에 예 수 께 서 밝 히 이 르 시 되 ` 나 사 로 가 죽 었 느 니 라
Latvian	Tad Jçzus viòiem pateica atklâti: Lâcars ir nomiris.
Maori	Katahi ka mea nui a Ihu ki a ratou, Kua mate a Raharuhi.
Modern Greek	Τοτε λοιπον ειπε προς αυτους ο Ιησους παρρησια· Ο Λαζαρος απεθανε.
Norwegian	Da sa Jesus rent ut til dem: Lasarus er død,
Portuguese	Então Jesus lhes disse claramente: Lázaro morreu;
Rumanian	Atunci Isus le -a spus pe fayq: ,,Lazqr a murit.``
Russian	фПЗ�"Б йЙУХУ УЛБЪБМ ЙН � ТСНП: мБЪБТШ ХНЕТ;
Shuar	Jesus nuikia ti paant Tímiayi "Rásaru yamaikia jakayi.
Spanish	Así que, luego Jesús les dijo claramente: --Lázaro ha muerto;
Swahili	Basi, Yesu akawaambia waziwazi, "Lazaro amekufa;
Swedish	Då sade Jesus öppet till dem: "Lasarus är död.
Thai	ฉะนั้นพระเยซูจึงตรัสกับเขาตรงๆว่า "ลาซารัสตายแล้ว
Ukrainian	Тоді просто сказав їм Ісус: Умер Лазар.
Uma	Jadi', nalohu lau-miraka batua walatu-na, na'uli': "Mate-imi Lazarus.
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Misspellings: Lazarus

Misspellings
	"Lazarus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bazaruto, Lazrus, Lazzaro. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Lazarus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-l-r-s-u-z"
	-1 letter: lauras, lazars.
	-2 letters: aural, auras, laura, lazar, sural.
	-3 letters: aals, alar, alas, aura, lars, saul, slur, sura, ursa.
	-4 letters: aal, aas, ala, als, ars, lar, las, ras, sal, sau.
	-5 letters: aa, al, ar, as, la, us.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-l-r-s-u-z"
	+2 letters: zarzuelas.
	+4 letters: hazardously, naturalizes.
	+5 letters: summarizable.
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