1. Lazarus - Noun
2. Lazarus - Verb
3. Lazarus - Proper noun
the diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar
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
Source: WordNetMy friends, does God invite you? If He does, why don't you accept the invitation? If you want to come, just come along, and don't be talking about feeling. Do you think Lazarus had any feeling when Christ called him out of the sepulchre? Dwight L. Moody
I want to have her back as an ingredient in the restoration of my past. Could I have wished her anything worse? Having got once through death, to come back and then, at some later date, have all her dying to do all over again? They call Stephen the first martyr. Hadn't Lazarus the rawer deal? C. S. Lewis
She soon found the door the alethiometer had told her about. The sign on it said DARK MATTER RESEARCH UNIT, and under it someone had scribbled R. I. P. Another hand had added in pencil DIRECTOR: LAZARUS. Lyra made nothing of that. She knocked, and a woman's voice said, "Come in." Philip Pullman
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long. Robert A. Heinlein
The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus. Annie Dillard
It was Lazarus faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom. Richard Chenevix Trench