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Definition of Lazarus
1 : a brother of Mary and Martha raised by Jesus from the dead according to the account in John 11
2 : the diseased beggar in the parable of the rich man and the beggar found in Luke 16
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Origin and Etymology of lazarus
Late Latin, from Greek Lazaros, from Hebrew Elʽāzār
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