Greek Lexicon G1301–G1400 (Strong's)

G1301

διατηρέω (diatēréō)

(dee-at-ay-reh'-o | thee-ah-tay-REH-oh | thee-ah-tay-RAY-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G5083; to watch thoroughly, i.e., (positively and transitively) to observe strictly, or (negatively and reflexively) to avoid wholly; keep.

  • to keep continually or carefully

See also

G1223, G5083

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1301.1 below.

G1301.1

διατήρησις (diatērēsis)

(dee-ah-TEE-ree-sees)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun from διατηρέω (to keep carefully) — a keeping, preservation. The sanctuary's memorial-jar word: the omer of manna "for preservation unto your generations," Aaron's budded rod, and the red heifer's ashes kept for the water of cleansing.

  • preservation, keeping

Septuagint usage

5 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 16:33 (an omer of manna in the jar, set before God for preservation); Exodus 16:34 (kept before the testimony); Numbers 17:10 (Aaron's rod returned before the testimony, kept as a sign); Numbers 19:9 (the heifer's ashes laid up for preservation — water of sprinkling, a purification).

G1302

διατί (diatí)

(dee-at-ee' | thee-ah-TEE | thee-ah-TEE)

Definition

from G1223 and G5101; through what cause ?, i.e., why?; wherefore, why.

  • through, by, with, because of, for the sake of

See also

G1223, G5101

G1303

διατίθεμαι (diatíthemai)

(dee-at-ith'-em-ahee | thee-ah-TEE-theh-meh | thee-ah-TEE-thay-may)

Definition

middle voice from G1223 and G5087; to put apart, i.e., (figuratively) dispose (by assignment, compact, or bequest); appoint, make, testator.

  • to arrange, dispose of, one's own affairs
    • of something that belongs to one
    • to dispose of by will, make a testament
  • to make a covenant, enter into a covenant, with one

See also

G1223, G5087

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1303.1–G1303.7 below.

G1303.1

διατίλλω (diatillō)

(dee-ah-TIL-lo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to pluck out (hair), tear by the hair (διά + τίλλω, to pluck). Job's account of his undoing: 'I was at peace, and He shattered me; taking me by the hair He plucked it out — He set me up as a target.' The complaint of being God's mark (cf. Lamentations 3:12) voiced by the man God Himself called blameless — the book's engine: both descriptions are true, and the resolution is beyond Job's sight (Job 1:8; 16:12).

  • to pluck out
  • to tear by the hair

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 16:12 (I was at peace and He effaced me; taking me by the hair of the head, He plucked it out — He placed me as if a target).

G1303.2

διατόνιον (diatonion)

(dee-ah-TO-nee-on)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a cross-clasp, brace (διά + τείνω, to stretch across). In the assembly-summons of the freewill offering: 'the tent, and the leather coverings, and the coverings, and the clasps, and the posts, and the bars, and the pegs, and the bases' — the tabernacle disassembled into its fittings so every willing heart could carry a named piece of the dwelling of God (Exodus 35:10-11, 21).

  • clasp
  • brace

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 35:11 (the tent, and the covering sheets of leather, and the coverings, and the clasps, and the posts, and the bars, and the pegs, and the bases).

G1303.3

διατόρευμα (diatoreuma)

(dee-ah-TO-rev-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — engraved work, chased carving (from τορεύω, to work in relief). On the bronze laver-stands: 'its mouth was round, a cubit and a half — and upon its mouth were carvings; and their panels were four-cornered, not round.' Ornament lavished on wash-stands (1 Kings 7:27-31): in Solomon's courts even the equipment of cleansing was made beautiful.

  • carving
  • engraved work

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Kings 7:31 (and its mouth was globular, made thus — a cubit and half a cubit; and upon its mouth were carvings, and their small pillars were four-cornered, not globular).

G1303.4

διατρέπομαι (diatrepomai)

(dee-ah-TREH-po-meh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to be turned about: abashed, confounded, overawed (διά + τρέπω, to turn). Haman confounded at the face of the king and queen when the word left the king's mouth — and Job's oath that he never shrank abashed before the multitude.

  • to be confounded
  • to be abashed

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Esther 7:8 (the king said, "will you even force the wife in my house?" — and when Haman heard, he was confounded in the face); Job 31:34 ("if I was ever abashed before a great multitude — not to declare before them; or if I let the powerless go forth from my door with an empty bosom").

G1303.5

διατρέφω (diatrephō)

(thee-a-TREH-fo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (through) and τρέφω (G5142, to nourish); to nourish through, sustain, maintain — the providence verb of the ark (to sustain seed on all the earth), of Joseph (I will sustain you), and of Ruth's redeemer-son who sustains Naomi's old age.

  • to sustain, nourish through
  • to maintain, provide for

Septuagint usage

16 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 7:3 (to sustain seed upon all the earth); Genesis 50:21 (I will sustain you and your households); Ruth 4:15 (a restorer of life, to sustain your old age); 2 Samuel 19:32.

See also

G5142

G1303.6

διατρέχω (diatrechō)

(dhee-ah-TREH-kho)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to run through, run along, dart about (διά, through + τρέχω, to run). Fire running along the ground in the hail-plague, Baal's prophets running about their altar — and Nineveh's chariots darting through the squares like lightning.

  • to run through
  • to dart about

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 9:23 (Moses stretched out his staff — the LORD gave thunder and hail, and fire ran along upon the ground); 1 Kings 18:26 (the prophets of Baal called from morning to noon — "O Baal, answer us!" — and they ran about the altar they had made); Nahum 2:4 (the chariots rage in the streets and rush to and fro in the squares — their appearance like torches, darting like lightning).

G1303.7

διατριβή (diatribē)

(dee-ah-tree-VEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun from διατρίβω (to wear through time) — where or how time is spent: an abode; a pastime. Leviticus assigns the leper his solitary abode outside the camp; Proverbs watches how households spend their hours.

  • abode
  • pastime

Septuagint usage

5 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 13:46 (all the days of the infection — unclean, dwelling apart, his abode outside the camp); Proverbs 12:11 (he who chases idle pastimes lacks sense); Proverbs 31:27 (the ways of her household are watched — she eats no idle bread); Jeremiah 49:33 (Hazor become an abode of desolation forever).

G1304

διατρίβω (diatríbō)

(dee-at-ree'-bo | thee-ah-TREE-voh | thee-ah-TREE-voh)

Definition

from G1223 and the base of G5147; to wear through (time), i.e., remain; abide, be, continue, tarry.

  • to rub between, rub hard
  • to wear away, consume
  • to spend, pass time

See also

G1223, G5147

G1305

διατροφή (diatrophḗ)

(dee-at-rof-ay' | thee-ah-troh-FAY | thee-ah-troh-FAY)

Definition

from a compound of G1223 and G5142; nourishment; food.

  • sustenance

See also

G1223, G5142

G1306

διαυγάζω (diaugázō)

(dee-ow-gad'-zo | thee-ev-GA-zoh | thee-a-GA-zoh)

Definition

from G1223 and G826; to glimmer through, i.e., break (as day); dawn.

  • to shine through, to dawn
    • of daylight breaking through the darkness of night

See also

G826, G1223

G1307

διαφανής (diaphanḗs)

(dee-af-an-ace' | thee-ah-fa-NASE | thee-ah-fa-NASE)

Definition

from G1223 and G5316; appearing through, i.e., "diaphanous"; transparent.

  • transparent, translucent

See also

G1223, G5316

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1307.1 below.

G1307.1

διαφαύσκω (diaphauskō)

(dhee-ah-FAF-sko)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to dawn, to let light shine through (διά, through + the root of φῶς, light); aorist διέφαυσε, "day broke." The narrative word for daybreak — the hinge-hour of pursuit and escape.

  • to dawn
  • to break (of daylight)

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 44:3 (as soon as morning dawned, the men were sent away — Joseph's silver cup hidden in Benjamin's sack); Judges 16:2 (the Gazites lie in wait all night at the gate for Samson, saying, "at the dawning of day we will kill him"); Judges 19:26 (the concubine fell at the door of the house as morning dawned — the outrage at Gibeah); 2 Samuel 2:32 (Joab's men marched all night, and day broke upon them at Hebron).

G1308

διαφέρω (diaphérō)

(dee-af-er'-o | thee-ah-FEH-roh | thee-ah-FAY-roh)

Definition

from G1223 and G5342; to bear through, i.e., (literally) transport; usually to bear apart, i.e., (objectively) to toss about (figuratively, report); subjectively, to "differ", or (by implication) surpass; be better, carry, differ from, drive up and down, be (more) excellent, make matter, publish, be of more value.

  • to bear or carry through any place
  • to carry different ways
    • to carry in different directions, to different places
      • of people who are carried hither and thither in a ship, driven to and fro
    • to differ, to test, prove, the good things that differ,
      • to distinguish between good and evil, lawful and unlawful, to approve of things that excel, to differ from one
      • to excel, surpass one
    • impersonally, it makes a difference, it matters, is of importance

See also

G1223, G5342

G1309

διαφεύγω (diapheúgō)

(dee-af-yoo'-go | thee-ah-FEV-goh | thee-ah-FAVE-goh)

Definition

from G1223 and G5343; to flee through, i.e., escape; escape.

  • to flee through danger, to escape

See also

G1223, G5343

G1310

διαφημίζω (diaphēmízō)

(dee-af-ay-mid'-zo | thee-ah-fay-MEE-zoh | thee-ah-fay-MEE-zoh)

Definition

from G1223 and a derivative of G5345; to report thoroughly, i.e., divulgate; blaze abroad, commonly report, spread abroad, fame.

  • to spread abroad, blaze abroad
  • to spread abroad his fame or renown

See also

G1223, G5345

G1311

διαφθείρω (diaphtheírō)

(dee-af-thi'-ro | thee-ah-FTHEE-roh | thee-ah-FTHEE-roh)

Definition

from G1225 and G5351; to rot thoroughly, i.e., (by implication) to ruin (passively, decay utterly, figuratively, pervert); corrupt, destroy, perish.

  • to change for the worse, to corrupt
    • of minds, morals
  • to destroy, ruin
    • to consume
      • of bodily vigour and strength
      • of the worm or moth that eats provisions, clothing, etc.
    • to destroy, to kill

See also

G1225, G5351

G1312

διαφθορά (diaphthorá)

(dee-af-thor-ah' | thee-ah-fthoh-RA | thee-ah-fthoh-RA)

Definition

from G1311; decay; corruption.

  • corruption, destruction
  • in the New Testament that destruction which is effected by the decay of the body after death

See also

G1311

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1312.1–G1312.3 below.

G1312.1

διαφλέγω (diaphlegō)

(dee-ah-FLEH-go)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to burn through, consume in flame (διά + φλέγω, to blaze). From the psalm against the confederacy: 'as fire which shall burn up a forest, as a flame which incinerates mountains — so shall You pursue them with Your tempest.' But the imprecation opens into mission: 'fill their faces with dishonor, and they shall seek Your name, O LORD' (Psalm 83:14-16) — even the firestorm prays for converts.

  • to burn up
  • to consume in flame

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 83:14 (as fire which shall burn up a forest — as a flame which incinerates mountains).

G1312.2

διαφορέω (diaphoreō)

(dee-ah-fo-REH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to carry off, plunder, scatter (διά + φορέω, to carry). In the comfort-scroll's reversal-clause: 'all the ones devouring you shall be eaten, and all your enemies shall go into captivity — and the ones scattering you shall be for scattering, and all who despoiled you I shall give for plunder.' Every verb the enemies used on Zion is conjugated back onto them, and the next verse binds up: 'I will bring your healing' (Jeremiah 30:16-17).

  • to carry off
  • to scatter

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 30:16 (all the ones devouring you shall be eaten, and all your enemies shall come into captivity — and the ones dispersing you will be for dispersion, and all the ones having despoiled you I shall give for plunder).

G1312.3

διαφόρημα (diaphorēma)

(dee-ah-FO-ree-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — plunder, a thing carried off (from διαφορέω, to carry off — its companion in the same sentence). The fate assigned to Zion's scatterers: 'the ones dispersing you shall be for dispersion' — predator and prey exchanged by decree, the lex talionis of exile working comfort for the wounded city whom 'they called an outcast' (Jeremiah 30:16-17).

  • plunder
  • dispersion

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 30:16 (and the ones dispersing you will be for dispersion — and all the ones having despoiled you I shall give for plunder).

See also

G1312.2

G1313

διάφορος (diáphoros)

(dee-af'-or-os | thee-AH-foh-rose | thee-AH-foh-rose)

Definition

from G1308; varying; also surpassing; differing, divers, more excellent.

  • different, varying in kind
  • excellent, surpassing

See also

G1308

G1314

διαφυλάσσω (diaphylássō)

(dee-af-oo-las'-so | thee-ah-foo-LAHS-soh | thee-ah-fyoo-LAHS-soh)

Definition

from G1223 and G5442; to guard thoroughly, i.e., protect; keep.

  • to guard carefully
    • the LXX used this especially of God's providential care

See also

G1223, G5442

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1314.1–G1314.2 below.

G1314.1

διαφωνέω (diaphōneō)

(dee-ah-fo-NEH-oh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — literally "to sound apart," be dissonant; the LXX uses it of the voice missing at a roll-call — to be missing, to have perished. So Numbers 31:49: the muster returned with not one missing; and Solomon's blessing: not one word of all His good word has fallen out of the count.

  • to be missing, perish (from a count)
  • to dissent

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 24:11 (of the chosen ones of Israel not even one dissented — they beheld God, and ate and drank); Numbers 31:49 ("your servants have taken the count... and not one of them is missing"); 1 Samuel 30:19 (nothing of David's was missing, small or great — all recovered at Ziklag); 1 Kings 8:56 ("not one word has failed among all His good words").

G1314.2

διαφωτίζω (diaphōtizō)

(dee-ah-fo-TEE-zo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to light through: to dawn fully, break into light (διά, through + φωτίζω, to give light). Saul's night-pursuit clause — plunder among the Philistines until the morning fully dawn — and the reading of the law in Nehemiah from the sun's first full light until midday.

  • to dawn fully
  • to break into light

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Samuel 14:36 ("let us go down after the Philistines by night, and tear them in pieces until the morning should fully dawn — and let us not leave behind among them a man"); Nehemiah 8:3 (he read in it from the hour of the sun's full dawning until the middle of the day — before the men and the women, and the ones discerning; and all the people's ears were attentive to the scroll of the law).

G1315

διαχειρίζομαι (diacheirízomai)

(dee-akh-i-rid'-zom-ahee | thee-ah-hee-REE-zoh-meh | thee-ah-hee-REE-zoh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and a derivative of G5495; to handle thoroughly, i.e., lay violent hands upon; kill, slay.

  • to move by the use of the hands, take in hand, manage, administer, govern
  • to lay hands on, slay, kill [with one's own hand]

See also

G1223, G5495

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1315.1–G1315.4 below.

G1315.1

διαχέω (diacheō)

(thee-a-HEH-oh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (through) and χέω (to pour); to pour through, diffuse, spread abroad — in Leviticus 13-14 the technical verb for an infection spreading in skin, garment, or house wall.

  • to spread, diffuse (of leprous infection)
  • to be poured out, melt away

Septuagint usage

21 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 13:22 ("if it should spread in the skin"); Leviticus 13:27; Leviticus 13:51 (the spreading infection in the garment); Leviticus 14:39; Leviticus 14:44.

See also

G3014

G1315.2

διαχρίω (diachriō)

(dee-ah-KHREE-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to smear all over, anoint throughout (διά, throughout + χρίω, to anoint). The grain offering's anointed bread: unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and wafers smeared all over with oil — for the bloodless gift and the thanksgiving sacrifice alike.

  • to smear all over
  • to anoint throughout

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 2:4 (and if he should bring a gift sacrifice baked from the oven — unleavened bread loaves of fine flour being mixed in olive oil, and unleavened pancakes smeared all over with olive oil); Leviticus 7:12 (if he should offer it for praise — then he shall offer with the sacrifice of praise unleavened bread loaves being mixed in olive oil, and unleavened pancakes being smeared all over with olive oil).

G1315.3

διάχρυσος (diachrysos)

(dee-AH-khree-sos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — interwoven with gold, gold-shot (διά + χρυσός, gold). The wedding psalm of the King: 'the queen stood at Your right hand in clothing interwoven with gold, embroidered.' The psalm whose throne-address Hebrews reads of the Son (Psalm 45:6-7; Hebrews 1:8-9) seats a bride in gold at His right — glory conferred, not achieved: 'hear, O daughter... and the King shall desire your beauty' (Psalm 45:9-11).

  • gold-interwoven

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 45:9 (the daughters of kings gladdened you in your honor — the queen stood at your right hand in clothes interwoven with gold, embroidered).

G1315.4

διάχυσις (diachysis)

(dhee-AH-khee-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a spreading abroad, diffusion (διά, through + χέω, to pour). The diagnostic word of Leviticus 13 — the priest watches for the plague's diffusion through the skin.

  • spreading
  • diffusion

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 13:22 (if it spreads in a diffusion through the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean — it is a plague); Leviticus 13:27 (the priest looks on the seventh day — if it is spreading in diffusion in the skin, it is the mark of leprosy); Leviticus 13:35 (but if the scall spreads in diffusion in the skin after his cleansing, the priest shall look again).

G1316

διαχωρίζομαι (diachōrízomai)

(dee-akh-o-rid'-zom-ahee | thee-ah-hoh-REE-zoh-meh | thee-ah-hoh-REE-zoh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and the middle voice of G5563; to remove (oneself) wholly, i.e., retire; depart.

  • to separate thoroughly or wholly
  • to separate one's self, depart

See also

G1223, G5563

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1316.1–G1316.3 below. (The Genesis "separate/part" links do belong to διαχωρίζομαι above.)

G1316.1

διάψαλμα (diápsalma)

(dee-AH-psal-ma)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Neuter noun from διά (through, between) and ψάλλω (G5567, to pluck, make music); a musical interlude — the LXX's rendering of the Hebrew סֶלָה (Selah): a pause in the sung psalm, likely for instrumental music, marking a point where the singer stops and the truth just sung is left sounding. The ABP glosses it "PAUSE."

  • interlude, pause in psalmody; = Selah

Septuagint usage

33 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear, all in the Psalter: Psalm 3:2; Psalm 4:4; Psalm 32:5, 7; Psalm 46 (after each stanza of the refuge-psalm); Psalm 57:6; Psalm 66:4, 7.

See also

G5567, G5568

G1316.2

διαψεύδομαι (diapseúdomai)

(dee-ah-PSEV-do-meh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (thoroughly) and ψεύδομαι (G5574, to lie); to deceive utterly, prove false to, disappoint.

  • to deceive, prove false, disappoint

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Kings 4:16 (the Shunammite to Elisha: "do not disappoint your maidservant").

See also

G5574

G1316.3

δίγλωσσος (díglōssos)

(DEE-glohs-sos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective from δίς (G1364, twice) and γλῶσσα (G1100, tongue); double-tongued — the talebearer of Proverbs who speaks one way to one hearer and another way to another.

  • double-tongued, tale-bearing

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Proverbs 11:13; Proverbs 20:19.

See also

G1364, G1100

G1317

διδακτικός (didaktikós)

(did-ak-tik-os' | thee-thahk-tee-KOSE | thee-thahk-tee-KOSE)

Definition

from G1318; instructive ("didactic"); apt to teach.

  • apt and skilful in teaching

See also

G1318

G1318

διδακτός (didaktós)

(did-ak-tos' | thee-thahk-TOSE | thee-thahk-TOSE)

Definition

from G1321; (subjectively) instructed, or (objectively) communicated by teaching; taught, which...teacheth.

  • that can be taught
  • taught, instructed by one
  • teachings, precepts

See also

G1321

G1319

διδασκαλία (didaskalía)

(did-as-kal-ee'-ah | thee-tha-ska-LEE-ah | thee-tha-ska-LEE-ah)

Definition

from G1320; instruction (the function or the information); doctrine, learning, teaching.

  • teaching, instruction
  • teaching
    • that which is taught, doctrine
    • teachings, precepts

See also

G1320

G1320

διδάσκαλος (didáskalos)

(did-as'-kal-os | thee-THA-ska-lose | thee-THA-ska-lose)

Definition

from G1321; an instructor (genitive case or specially); doctor, master, teacher.

  • a teacher
    • one who is fitted to teach, or thinks himself so
    • the teachers of the Jewish religion
    • of those who by their great power as teachers draw crowds around them i.e., John the Baptist, Jesus
    • by preeminence used of Jesus by himself, as one who showed men the way of salvation
    • of the apostles, and of Paul
    • of those who in the religious assemblies of the Christians, undertook the work of teaching, with the special assistance of the Holy Spirit
    • of false teachers among Christians
  • in the New Testament one who teaches concerning the things of God, and the duties of man

See also

G1321

G1321

διδάσκω (didáskō)

(did-as'-ko | thee-THA-skoh | thee-THA-skoh)

Definition

a prolonged (causative) form of a primary verb δάω (to learn); to teach (in the same broad application); teach.

  • to teach
    • to hold discourse with others in order to instruct them, deliver didactic discourses
    • to be a teacher
    • to discharge the office of a teacher, conduct one's self as a teacher
  • to teach one
    • to impart instruction
    • instill doctrine into one
    • the thing taught or enjoined
    • to explain or expound a thing
    • to teach one something

G1322

διδαχή (didachḗ)

(did-akh-ay' | thee-tha-HAY | thee-tha-HAY)

Definition

from G1321; instruction (the act or the matter); doctrine, hath been taught.

  • teaching
    • that which is taught
    • doctrine, teaching, concerning something
  • the act of teaching, instruction
    • in religious assemblies of the Christians, to speak in the way of teaching, in distinction from other modes of speaking in public

See also

G1321

G1323

δίδραχμον (dídrachmon)

(did'-rakh-mon | THEE-thrahk-mone | THEE-thrahk-mone)

Definition

from G1364 and G1406; a double drachma (didrachm); tribute.

  • a didrachmon or double drachma, a silver coin equal to two Attic drachmas or one Alexandrian, or one half a shekel

See also

G1364, G1406

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1323.1 below.

G1323.1

διδυμεύω (didymeuō)

(dee-dee-MEV-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to bear twins (from δίδυμος, twin — the name borne by Thomas called Didymus). The Song's praise of the bride's teeth — a flock of shorn ewes come up from the washing, every one bearing twins, none bereaved among them.

  • to bear twins
  • to twin

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Song of Solomon 4:2 (your teeth are as herds of shorn sheep which came up from the washing — all bearing twins, and there is none barren among them); Song of Solomon 6:6 (your teeth are as herds of shorn sheep that came up from the washing — all bearing twins, and there is none barren among them).

G1324

Δίδυμος (Dídymos)

(did'-oo-mos | THEE-thoo-mose | THEE-thyoo-mose)

Definition

two fold, twain; prolongation from G1364; double, i.e., twin; Didymus, a Christian; Didymus.

  • a surname for the apostle Thomas

See also

G1364

G1325

δίδωμι (dídōmi)

(did'-o-mee | THEE-thoh-mee | THEE-thoh-mee)

Definition

a prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an alternative in most of the tenses); to give (used in a very wide application, properly, or by implication, literally or figuratively; greatly modified by the connection); adventure, bestow, bring forth, commit, deliver (up), give, grant, hinder, make, minister, number, offer, have power, put, receive, set, shew, smite (+ with the hand), strike (+ with the palm of the hand), suffer, take, utter, yield.

  • to give
  • to give something to someone
    • of one's own accord to give one something, to his advantage
      • to bestow a gift
    • to grant, give to one asking, let have
    • to supply, furnish, necessary things
    • to give over, deliver
      • to reach out, extend, present
      • of a writing
      • to give over to one's care, entrust, commit
        • something to be administered
        • to give or commit to some one something to be religiously observed
    • to give what is due or obligatory, to pay: wages or reward
    • to furnish, endue
  • to give
    • to cause, profuse, give forth from one's self
      • to give, hand out lots
    • to appoint to an office
    • to give one to someone as his own
      • as an object of his saving care
      • to give one to someone, to follow him as a leader and master
      • to give one to someone to care for his interests
      • to give one to someone to whom he already belonged, to return
  • to grant or permit one
    • to commission

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1325.1 below.

G1325.1

διεγγυάω (diengyaō)

(dee-en-ghee-AH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to mortgage, give as security (διά + ἐγγύη, a pledge). The famine-cry inside the restored city: 'our fields and our vineyards and our houses we mortgage — that we may take grain and eat.' Brothers foreclosing on brothers while the wall rises; Nehemiah's anger, assembly, and oath claw the pledges back (Nehemiah 5:1-13): reformation that reads mortgages as covenant documents.

  • to mortgage
  • to pledge

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Nehemiah 5:3 (and there are some saying, Our fields and our vineyards and our houses we mortgaged — and we shall take grain and we shall eat).

G1326

διεγείρω (diegeírō)

(dee-eg-i'-ro | thee-eh-GEE-roh | thee-ay-GEE-roh)

Definition

from G1223 and G1453; to wake fully; i.e., arouse (literally or figuratively); arise, awake, raise, stir up.

  • to wake up, awaken, arouse (from sleep)
    • of the sea, which begins to be agitated, to rise
    • metaphorically
      • to arouse the mind
      • stir up, render active

See also

G1223, G1453

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1326.1–G1326.7 below.

G1326.1

διεκβάλλω (diekballō)

(thee-ek-VAL-loh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά, ἐκ, and βάλλω (G906, to cast); to pass out through, extend through to — the surveyor's verb of Joshua's boundary descriptions: the border passes out to its landmarks.

  • to pass out through, extend to (of a border)

Septuagint usage

10 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Joshua 15:4 (the border passes out to the brook of Egypt); Joshua 15:9; Joshua 16:7; Joshua 18:17.

See also

G906

G1326.2

διεκβολή (diekbolē)

(dee-ek-vo-LEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a way out through: an outlet, a mountain pass.

  • outlet
  • mountain pass

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 12:12 (destroyers come upon every pass of the wilderness); Ezekiel 47:8 (the temple river's outlet toward the east, healing the waters); Obadiah 1:14 ("do not stand at the mountain pass to cut off his escapees" — Edom indicted).

G1326.3

διελαύνω (dielaunō)

(dee-eh-LAV-no)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to drive through (διά + ἐλαύνω, to drive). The completion of Jael's stroke: she hammered the tent-peg 'and drove it through into the ground — and he, startled, was enveloped in darkness and died.' The commander who fled a lost battle on foot is fastened to the earth by a homemaker's tool, exactly as prophesied: 'into the hand of a woman' (Judges 4:9, 21).

  • to drive through

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Judges 4:21 (and she hammered the peg into his cheek, and thrust it through into the ground — and he, being startled, was enveloped in darkness and died).

See also

G1101.4

G1326.4

διελέγχω (dielegchō)

(dee-eh-LENG-kho)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to argue through to the end, plead out a case (διά, thoroughly + ἐλέγχω, to convict). The covenant-lawsuit verb spoken in mercy — "come, let us plead together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, I will whiten them as snow" — and the LORD's case argued before the mountains in Micah.

  • to plead out
  • to reason together

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Isaiah 1:18 ("come, and let us plead together," says the LORD — "and if your sins should be as scarlet, I will whiten them as snow; and if they should be as crimson, I will whiten them as wool"); Micah 6:2 (hear, O mountains, the case of the LORD, and you ravines, foundations of the earth — for the LORD has a case against His people, and He will plead it out with Israel).

G1326.5

διεμβάλλω (diemballō)

(dee-em-VAHL-loh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to thrust through, insert (βάλλω with διά and ἐν). The carrying-verb of the sanctuary: the bars thrust through the rings of ark, table, and altar — holiness made portable for the wilderness road.

  • to insert through, thrust through

Septuagint usage

5 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 40:18 (Moses raises the tabernacle and inserts the bars); Numbers 4:6 (the staves inserted for the ark's journey); Numbers 4:8 (the table of the presence covered, its staves inserted); Numbers 4:14 (the altar's vessels covered, its staves inserted).

G1326.6

διεξάγω (diexagō)

(dee-ex-AH-go)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to carry through to completion, administer to the end (διά + ἐξάγω, to lead out). Habakkuk's opening grievance: 'the law is paralyzed, and judgment is not carried through to the end — for the impious tyrannizes over the just; judgment goes forth perverted.' Justice that starts and never finishes: the complaint God answers first with Babylon, then with the sentence the just live by (Habakkuk 1:4; 2:4).

  • to carry through
  • to administer to the end

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Habakkuk 1:4 (on account of this the law is effaced, and judgment is not administered unto the end — for the impious tyrannize over the just; because of this judgment shall go forth being perverted).

G1326.7

διεξέρχομαι (diexerchomai)

(dhee-ex-ER-kho-meh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to go clean through, pass out through (διά, through + ἐξέρχομαι, to go out). Abner's spear through Asahel, the arrow through the body of the wicked — and Ezekiel's exile-sign, going out through the dug wall.

  • to go clean through
  • to pass out through

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Samuel 2:23 (Abner struck him with the butt of the spear, and it went clean through and came out behind him — and Asahel fell there and died); Job 20:25 (the wicked man's portion — may the arrow go completely through his body, and lightnings walk in his dwellings); Ezekiel 12:5 ("dig through the wall in their sight, and go out through it" — the prophet's baggage-sign of exile).

G1327

διέξοδος (diéxodos)

(dee-ex'-od-os | thee-EH-ksoh-those | thee-A-ksoh-those)

Definition

from G1223 and G1841; an outlet through, i.e., probably an open square (from which roads diverge); highway.

  • a way out through, outlet, exit
    • literally the ways through which ways go out
    • the places before the city where the roads from the country terminate, therefore outlets of the country highways, also entrances into the city
    • of boundaries of countries

See also

G1223, G1841

G1328

διερμηνευτής (diermēneutḗs)

(dee-er-main-yoo-tace' | thee-er-may-nev-TASE | thee-are-may-nayf-TASE)

Definition

from G1329; an explainer; interpreter.

  • an interpreter

See also

G1329

G1329

διερμηνεύω (diermēneúō)

(dee-er-main-yoo'-o | thee-er-may-NEV-oh | thee-are-may-NAVE-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G2059; to explain thoroughly, by implication, to translate; expound, interpret(-ation).

  • to unfold the meaning of what is said, explain, expound
  • to translate into one's native language

See also

G1223, G2059

G1330

διέρχομαι (diérchomai)

(dee-er'-khom-ahee | thee-ER-hoh-meh | thee-ARE-hoh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and G2064; to traverse (literally); come, depart, go (about, abroad, everywhere, over, through, throughout), pass (by, over, through, throughout), pierce through, travel, walk through.

  • to go through, pass through
    • to go, walk, journey, pass through a place
    • to travel the road which leads through a place, go, pass, travel through a region
  • to go different places
    • of people, to go abroad
    • of a report, to spread, go abroad

See also

G1223, G2064

G1331

διερωτάω (dierōtáō)

(dee-er-o-tah'-o | thee-eh-roh-TA-oh | thee-ay-roh-TA-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G2065; to question throughout, i.e., ascertain by interrogation; make enquiry for.

  • to ask through
    • ask many, one after another
    • to find out by asking, enquire out

See also

G1223, G2065

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1331.1 below.

G1331.1

διετηρίς (dietēris)

(dee-eh-tee-REES)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a period of two full years (δίς, twice + ἔτος, year). The incubation of Absalom's revenge: 'after two whole years of days, they were shearing for Absalom in Baal-hazor — and Absalom called all the sons of the king.' Two years of silence (2 Samuel 13:22) ripening into a shearing-feast ambush: hatred is patient where confession is absent (2 Samuel 13:23, 28-29).

  • two-year span

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Samuel 13:23 (and it came to pass after two whole years of days, that they were shearing for Absalom in Baal-hazor, the one by Ephraim — and Absalom called all the sons of the king).

G1332

διετής (dietḗs)

(dee-et-ace' | thee-eh-TASE | thee-ay-TASE)

Definition

from G1364 and G2094; of two years (in age); two years old.

  • of two years, two years old

See also

G1364, G2094

G1333

διετία (dietía)

(dee-et-ee'-a | thee-eh-TEE-ah | thee-ay-TEE-ah)

Definition

from G1332; a space of two years (biennium); two years.

  • the space of two years

See also

G1332

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1333.1 below.

G1333.1

διευλαβέομαι (dieulabeomai)

(dee-ev-lah-VEH-o-meh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to be thoroughly wary of, to dread (διά, thoroughly + εὐλαβέομαι, to be cautious). The covenant-curse clause recalling Egypt: every evil grief of Egypt which you dreaded from their face — brought back upon the disobedient.

  • to dread
  • to be thoroughly wary of

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 28:60 (and He shall turn upon you all the grievous pain of Egypt — which you dreaded from their face — and they shall cleave to you).

G1334

διηγέομαι (diēgéomai)

(dee-ayg-eh'-om-ahee | thee-ay-GEH-oh-meh | thee-ay-GAY-oh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and G2233; to relate fully; declare, shew, tell.

  • to lead or carry a narration through to the end
  • set forth, recount, relate in full, describe

See also

G1223, G2233

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1334.1 below.

G1334.1

διήγημα (diēgēma)

(dhee-EE-yee-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a tale, a story told (from διηγέομαι above, to narrate). The covenant-curse word: disobedient Israel and even the temple itself become a proverb and a tale among all peoples — and the tale Ezekiel is told to tell.

  • tale
  • story, byword

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 28:37 ("you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a tale among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you"); 2 Chronicles 7:20 (if you turn away — this house which I have consecrated I will cast from My presence, and make it a proverb and a tale among all peoples); Ezekiel 17:2 ("son of man, propound a riddle and tell a tale to the house of Israel" — the two eagles and the vine).

G1335

διήγεσις (diḗgesis)

(dee-ayg'-es-is | thee-A-geh-sees | thee-A-gay-sees)

Definition

from G1334; a recital; declaration.

  • a narration, narrative

See also

G1334

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1335.1–G1335.2 below.

G1335.1

διηθέω (diētheō)

(dee-ee-THEH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to strain through, filter, refine. The mining-poem's opening: 'there is for silver a place from where it comes, and a place for gold from where it is refined.' Man can find and filter every metal in the dark (Job 28:1-11) — 'but wisdom, from where is it found?' The one commodity with no vein, no filter, and one price: 'the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom' (Job 28:12, 28).

  • to refine
  • to filter

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 28:1 (for there is for silver a place from where it comes — and a place for gold, from where it is refined).

G1335.2

διηλόω (diēloō)

(dee-ee-LO-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to nail through (διά, through + ἧλος, nail). Deborah's Song at its hammer-stroke: Jael's hand to the peg, her right hand to the workmen's mallet — she nailed Sisera through.

  • to nail through
  • to pierce with a nail

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Judges 5:26 (twice — her left hand she stretched out to the peg, and her right hand to the hammer of ones toiling — and she nailed Sisera through, she nailed through his head, and she struck and nailed through his temple).

G1336

διηνεκής (diēnekḗs)

(dee-ay-nek-es' | thee-ay-neh-KASE | thee-ay-nay-KASE)

Definition

neuter of a compound of G1223 and a derivative of an alternate of G5342; carried through, i.e., (adverbially with G1519 and G3588 prefixed) perpetually; + continually, for ever.

  • continuously, continuous

See also

G1223, G1519, G3588, G5342

G1337

διθάλασσος (dithálassos)

(dee-thal'-as-sos | thee-THA-lahs-sose | thee-THA-lahs-sose)

Definition

from G1364 and G2281; having two seas, i.e., a sound with a double outlet; where two seas meet.

  • resembling or forming two seas: thus of the Euxine Sea
  • lying between two seas, i.e., washed on both sides by the sea
    • an isthmus or tongue of land, the extremity of which is covered by the waves
    • a projecting reef or bar against which the waves dash on both sides

See also

G1364, G2281

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1337.1–G1337.2 below.

G1337.1

δίθυμος (dithymos)

(DEE-thee-mos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — double-tempered, contentious; a man of divided spirit (δίς, twice + θυμός, temper — cousin to James's 'double-souled' δίψυχος, James 1:8). The fuel-economy of strife: 'with much wood fire flourishes — but where there is no double-tempered man, a fight is stilled.' Where the Hebrew removes the whisperer, the Greek removes the man of two tempers: either way, quarrels die of fuel-starvation (Proverbs 26:20-21).

  • contentious
  • double-tempered

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Proverbs 26:20 (with much wood fire flourishes — but where there is no man at variance with others, a fight is stilled).

G1337.2

διΐημι (diïēmi)

(dee-EE-ee-mee)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to spread apart, stretch out (διά + ἵημι, to send). The eagle-verse of the Song of Moses: 'as an eagle sheltering his nest, yearning over his young — spreading out his wings he receives them, and takes them up upon his back.' The LORD's wilderness pedagogy in one image: the stirred nest, the spread wings, the carried fledgling (Deuteronomy 32:10-12; Exodus 19:4) — He alone led him.

  • to spread out
  • to stretch apart

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 32:11 (as an eagle sheltering his nest, and yearning over his young — spreading out his wings he receives them, and he takes them upon his upper back).

G1338

διϊκνέομαι (diïknéomai)

(dee-ik-neh'-om-ahee | thee-ee-KNEH-oh-meh | thee-ee-KNAY-oh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and the base of G2425; to reach through, i.e., penetrate; pierce.

  • to go through, penetrate, pierce

See also

G1223, G2425

G1339

διΐστημι (diḯstēmi)

(dee-is'-tay-mee | thee-EE-stay-mee | thee-EE-stay-mee)

Definition

from G1223 and G2476; to stand apart, i.e., (reflexively) to remove, intervene; go further, be parted, after the space of.

  • to place separately, put asunder, disjoin
  • to stand apart, to part, depart

See also

G1223, G2476

G1340

διϊσχυρίζομαι (diïschyrízomai)

(dee-is-khoo-rid'-zom-ahee | thee-ee-skoo-REE-zoh-meh | thee-ee-skyoo-REE-zoh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and a derivative of G2478; to stout it through, i.e., asservate; confidently (constantly) affirm.

  • to lean upon
  • to affirm stoutly, assert confidently

See also

G1223, G2478

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1340.1 below.

G1340.1

δικάζω (dikazō)

(thee-KAH-zoh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from δίκη (G1349, justice); to judge, adjudicate, plead a cause — Samuel's life-verb (he judged Israel all the days of his life, circuit by circuit) and the request that ended the judgeship: appoint us a king to judge us.

  • to judge, adjudicate
  • to plead a cause

Septuagint usage

17 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Judges 6:31 (will you plead the cause for Baal?); 1 Samuel 7:6; 1 Samuel 7:15 (Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life); 1 Samuel 8:20 (a king to judge us, like all the nations).

See also

G1349

G1341

δικαιοκρισία (dikaiokrisía)

(dik-ah-yok-ris-ee'-ah | thee-keh-oh-kree-SEE-ah | thee-kay-oh-kree-SEE-ah)

Definition

from G1342 and G2920; a just sentence; righteous judgment.

  • righteous judgment

See also

G1342, G2920

G1342

δίκαιος (díkaios)

(dik'-ah-yos | THEE-keh-ose | THEE-kay-ose)

Definition

from G1349; equitable (in character or act); by implication, innocent, holy (absolutely or relatively); just, meet, right(-eous).

  • righteous, observing divine laws
    • in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
      • of those who seem to themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves in their virtues, whether real or imagined
      • innocent, faultless, guiltless
      • used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life
        • only Christ truly
      • approved of or acceptable of God
    • in a narrower sense, rendering to each his due and that in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others, whether expressed in words or shown by the manner of dealing with them

See also

G1349

G1343

δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosýnē)

(dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay | thee-keh-oh-SOO-nay | thee-kay-oh-SYOO-nay)

Definition

from G1342; equity (of character or act); specially (Christian) justification; righteousness.

  • in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God
    • the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved of God
    • integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correctness of thinking feeling, and acting
  • in a narrower sense, justice or the virtue which gives each his due

See also

G1342

G1344

δικαιόω (dikaióō)

(dik-ah-yo'-o | thee-keh-OH-oh | thee-kay-OH-oh)

Definition

from G1342; to render (i.e., show or regard as) just or innocent; free, justify(-ier), be righteous.

  • to render righteous or such he ought to be
  • to show, exhibit, evince, one to be righteous, such as he is and wishes himself to be considered
  • to declare, pronounce, one to be just, righteous, or such as he ought to be

See also

G1342

G1345

δικαίωμα (dikaíōma)

(dik-ah'-yo-mah | thee-KEH-oh-ma | thee-KAY-oh-ma)

Definition

from G1344; an equitable deed; by implication, a statute or decision; judgment, justification, ordinance, righteousness.

  • that which has been deemed right so as to have force of law
    • what has been established, and ordained by law, an ordinance
    • a judicial decision, sentence
      • of God
        • either the favorable judgment by which he acquits man and declares them acceptable to Him
        • unfavorable: sentence of condemnation
  • a righteous act or deed

See also

G1344

G1346

δικαίως (dikaíōs)

(dik-ah'-yoce | thee-KEH-ose | thee-KAY-ose)

Definition

adverb from G1342; equitably; justly, (to) righteously(-ness).

  • just, agreeably to right
  • properly, as is right
  • uprightly, agreeable to the law of rectitude

See also

G1342

G1347

δικαίωσις (dikaíōsis)

(dik-ah'-yo-sis | thee-KEH-oh-sees | thee-KAY-oh-sees)

Definition

from G1344; aquittal (for Christ's sake); justification.

  • the act of God declaring men free from guilt and acceptable to him
  • abjuring to be righteous, justification

See also

G1344

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1347.1 below.

G1347.1

δικαστήριον (dikastērion)

(dee-kas-TEE-ree-on)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a court of justice, tribunal (from δικαστής, judge). Gideon's new name as a standing docket: 'he called him in that day Jerubbaal, saying, The court of Baal — for he razed his altar.' Let the idol prosecute its own case: a god who cannot answer a demolished altar is a god exposed (Judges 6:31-32) — the same logic Elijah scales up on Carmel (1 Kings 18:27).

  • tribunal
  • court of justice

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Judges 6:32 (and he called him in that day Jerubbaal, saying, The court of justice of Baal — for he razed his altar).

G1348

δικαστής (dikastḗs)

(dik-as-tace' | thee-ka-STASE | thee-ka-STASE)

Definition

from a derivative of G1349; a judger; judge.

  • a judge, arbitrator, umpire

See also

G1349

G1349

δίκη (díkē)

(dee'-kay | THEE-kay | THEE-kay)

Definition

probably from G1166; right (as self-evident), i.e., justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution); judgment, punish, vengeance.

  • custom, usage
  • right, just
  • a suit at law
  • a judicial hearing, judicial decision, especially sentence of condemnation
  • execution of a sentence, punishment
    • to suffer punishment
  • the goddess Justice, avenging justice

See also

G1166

G1350

δίκτυον (díktyon)

(dik'-too-on | THEEK-too-one | THEEK-tyoo-one)

Definition

probably from a primary verb δίκω (to cast); a seine (for fishing); net.

  • a net

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1350.1–G1350.2 below.

G1350.1

δικτυόω (diktyoō)

(dik-tee-O-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to work into net-form, make as latticework (from δίκτυον, a net). On the twin pillars' capitals: 'a hanging work — two rows of bronze pomegranates made as latticework, row upon row; and thus he did for the second capital.' Jachin and Boaz crowned with fruit held in netting (1 Kings 7:15-21): establishment and strength, garlanded with abundance at the door of the house.

  • to make latticework
  • to net

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Kings 7:18 (and a hanging work — two rows of pomegranates of brass being made of lattice works, row upon row; and thus he did for the second capital).

G1350.2

δικτυωτός (diktyōtos)

(deek-tee-oh-TOSS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective from δίκτυον (G1350, net) — latticed, made as network. The altar's bronze grate — and two fateful windows: the lattice through which Sisera's mother watches for a son who will not come, and the lattice through which Ahaziah falls.

  • latticed, network

Septuagint usage

5 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 27:4 (a grate of network of bronze for the altar); Judges 5:28 (through the lattice the mother of Sisera looked — "why is his chariot ashamed to arrive?"); 2 Kings 1:2 (Ahaziah falls through the lattice of his upper chamber); Ezekiel 41:16 (the latticed windows of the measured temple).

See also

G1350

G1351

δίλογος (dílogos)

(dil'-og-os | THEE-loh-gose | THEE-loh-gose)

Definition

from G1364 and G3056; equivocal, i.e., telling a different story; double-tongued.

  • saying the same thing twice, repeating
  • double tongued, double in speech, saying one thing with one person another with another (with the intent to deceive)

See also

G1364, G3056

G1352

διό (dió)

(dee-o' | thee-OH | thee-OH)

Definition

from G1223 and G3739; through which thing, i.e., consequently; for which cause, therefore, wherefore.

  • wherefore, on account off

See also

G1223, G3739

G1353

διοδεύω (diodeúō)

(dee-od-yoo'-o | thee-oh-THEV-oh | thee-oh-THAVE-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G3593; to travel through; go throughout, pass through.

  • to pass or travel through
  • to travel here and there, go about

See also

G1223, G3593

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1353.1–G1353.4 below.

G1353.1

δίοδος (diodos)

(DEE-o-doss)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a way through: passage, thoroughfare, street. Isaiah gives it to the second exodus: a thoroughfare for the remnant of the people, as there was for Israel coming up out of Egypt.

  • passage, thoroughfare
  • street, corridor

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 13:16 (the apostate city's spoil piled in its thoroughfares); Judges 21:19 (the feast of the LORD at Shiloh, on the highway going up to Bethel); Isaiah 11:16 (a thoroughfare for the remnant, as for Israel in the day it came out of Egypt); Jeremiah 7:34 (the voice of bridegroom and bride silenced in the streets of Jerusalem).

G1353.2

διοικητής (dioikētēs)

(dee-ee-kee-TEES)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — an administrator, governor (from διοικέω, to manage a house). The caravan's safe arrival banked: 'they gave the mandate of the king to the administrators of the king and the governors beyond the river — and they glorified the people and the house of God.' Ezra had refused a military escort to prove 'the hand of our God is for good upon all who seek Him' (Ezra 8:22, 36); the imperial bureaucracy itself files the confirmation.

  • administrator
  • governor

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezra 8:36 (and they gave the mandate of the king to the administrators of the king, and to the chief rulers on the other side of the river — and they glorified the people and the house of God).

G1353.3

διοικοδομέω (dioikodomeō)

(dee-ee-ko-do-MEH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to build throughout, rebuild end to end (διά + οἰκοδομέω, to build). Nehemiah's rallying speech after the night ride: 'you see this wickedness we are in — how Jerusalem is desolate and her gates given to fire. Come, and let us build the wall of Jerusalem throughout, and we shall no longer be a scorn.' The people answered, 'let us rise up and build' — and strengthened their hands for the good (Nehemiah 2:17-18).

  • to rebuild throughout

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Nehemiah 2:17 (you see this wickedness in which we are — how Jerusalem is desolate, and its gates were given to fire; come, and let us build throughout the wall of Jerusalem, and we shall not be any longer for scorn).

G1353.4

διόλου (diolou)

(dee-O-loo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adverb — wholly, throughout, entirely (δι' ὅλου). The wall of Ezekiel's temple-vision chamber portrayed wholly round with creeping things and idols — and the land of the latter years, laid waste wholly, against which Gog comes up.

  • wholly
  • throughout

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezekiel 8:10 (I entered and looked — and behold, every likeness of reptile and beast, vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel — portrayed upon the wall round about wholly); Ezekiel 38:8 (in the latter years he shall come into the land turned back from the sword — gathered from many nations upon the land of Israel, which had become wholly desolate).

G1354

Διονύσιος (Dionýsios)

(dee-on-oo'-see-os | thee-oh-NOO-see-ose | thee-oh-NYOO-see-ose)

Definition

devoted to Bacchus; from Διόνυσος (Bacchus); reveller; Dionysius, an Athenian; Dionysius.

  • an Athenian, a member of the Areopagus, converted to Christianity by Paul

G1355

διόπερ (dióper)

(dee-op'-er | thee-OH-per | thee-OH-pare)

Definition

from G1352 and G4007; on which very account; wherefore.

  • on which very account

See also

G1352, G4007

G1356

διοπετής (diopetḗs)

(dee-op-et'-ace | thee-oh-peh-TASE | thee-oh-pay-TASE)

Definition

from the alternate of G2203 and the alternate of G4098; sky-fallen (i.e., an aerolite); which fell down from Jupiter.

  • fallen from Zeus, i.e., from heaven
  • an image of the Ephesian Artemis which was supposed to have fallen from heaven

See also

G2203, G4098

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1356.1–G1356.2 below.

G1356.1

διοράω (dioraō)

(dee-o-RAH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to see through, discern clearly (διά + ὁράω, to see). In Job's failed-brook simile for his friends: 'behold the ways of the Temanites, the shortcuts of the Sabaeans, you who see clearly' — expert caravaneers reading the desert for water and finding the wadi dry (Job 6:15-20). So Job's comforters: confident navigators of theology, arriving at a dried channel where compassion should have flowed.

  • to see clearly
  • to discern

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 6:19 (behold the ways of the Temanites — the short cuts of the Sabaeans, O ones seeing clearly).

G1356.2

διορθόω (diorthoō)

(dee-or-tho-OH)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to set straight, amend, put right; the verb behind διόρθωσις (G1357), Hebrews 9:10's "time of setting right." Jeremiah's temple sermon pleads it — "set right your ways and your practices" — and Isaiah promises it of David's throne.

  • to set right, amend
  • to establish, correct

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Isaiah 16:5 (a throne set right with mercy in the tent of David, its judge seeking judgment); Isaiah 62:7 (give Him no rest until He sets Jerusalem right, a praise in the earth); Jeremiah 7:3 ("set right your ways and your practices, and I will settle you in this place"); Jeremiah 7:5 (the condition pressed home).

See also

G1357

G1357

διόρθωσις (diórthōsis)

(dee-or'-tho-sis | thee-ORE-thoh-sees | thee-ORE-thoh-sees)

Definition

from a compound of G1223 and a derivative of G3717, meaning to straighten thoroughly; rectification, i.e., (specially) the Messianic restauration; reformation.

  • in a physical sense, a making straight, restoring to its natural and normal condition something which in some way protrudes or has got out of line, as broken or misshapen limbs
  • of acts and institutions, reformation

See also

G1223, G3717

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1357.1–G1357.2 below.

G1357.1

διορίζω (diorizō)

(thee-o-REE-zoh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (through) and ὁρίζω (G3724, to mark a boundary); to mark off, separate, distinguish — the veil separating the holy place from the most holy, and the Lord's separating of Israel from the nations.

  • to mark off, separate
  • to distinguish

Septuagint usage

15 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 26:33 (the veil shall separate for you between the holy and the most holy); Leviticus 20:24 (I am the Lord your God, who separated you from all the nations); 2 Chronicles 32:4; Isaiah 45:18.

See also

G3724

G1357.2

διόρυγμα (diorygma)

(dhee-O-reegh-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a place dug through: a breach, a break-in, a dug hollow (διά, through + ὀρύσσω, to dig). The law's burglary-word — the thief found in the breach — turned by Jeremiah against a people whose victims were no burglars at all.

  • breach, break-in
  • dug hollow

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 22:2 (if the thief is found in the breach and is struck so that he dies, there is no bloodguilt for him); Jeremiah 2:34 ("on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor — you did not find them in the breach"); Zephaniah 2:14 (desolate Nineveh — herds lie down in her midst, and creatures lodge in her dug hollows).

G1358

διορύσσω (diorýssō)

(dee-or-oos'-so | thee-oh-ROOS-soh | thee-oh-RYOOS-soh)

Definition

from G1223 and G3736; to penetrate burglariously; break through (up).

  • to dig through: a house

See also

G1223, G3736

G1359

Διόσκουροι (Dióskouroi)

(dee-os'-koo-roy | thee-OH-skoo-roo | thee-OH-skoo-roo)

Definition

from the alternate of G2203 and a form of the base of G2877; sons of Jupiter, i.e., the twins Dioscuri; Castor and Pollux.

  • Castor and Pollux, were the twin sons on Jupiter and Leda, and were regarded as the tutelary divinities of sailors

See also

G2203, G2877

G1360

διότι (dióti)

(dee-ot'-ee | thee-OH-tee | thee-OH-tee)

Definition

from G1223 and G3754; on the very account that, or inasmuch as; because (that), for, therefore.

  • on this account that, because
  • for

See also

G1223, G3754

G1361

Διοτρεφής (Diotrephḗs)

(dee-ot-ref-ace' | thee-oh-treh-FASE | thee-oh-tray-FASE)

Definition

nourished by Jove; from the alternate of G2203 and G5142; Jove-nourished; Diotrephes, an opponent of Christianity; Diotrephes.

  • a proud arrogant Christian mentioned in 3 John 9

See also

G2203, G5142

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1361.1–G1361.4 below.

G1361.1

δίπηχυς (dipēchys)

(DEE-pee-khees)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — two cubits deep, of two cubits (δίς, twice + πῆχυς, cubit). The quail-fall at Kibroth-hattaavah: 'a wind went forth from the LORD and carried mother-quail from the sea, and put them upon the camp — a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on that side, about two cubits from the earth.' Provision granted to the point of judgment: the craving answered waist-deep, and the graves named for the craving (Numbers 11:31-34; Psalm 78:26-31) — 'that we might not desire evil, as they desired' (1 Corinthians 10:6).

  • two cubits deep

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Numbers 11:31 (and a wind went forth from the LORD and carried over mother-quail from the sea, and it put them upon the camp — a day's journey here on this side and a day's journey on that side, round about the camp, about two cubits from the earth).

G1361.2

διπλασιάζω (diplasiazō)

(dee-plah-see-AH-zo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to double, redouble (from διπλάσιος, twofold). The doubled sword of Ezekiel's judgment-song — clap hand upon hand and redouble the sword — and, at the vision's reversal, the returning glory whose sound was as the sound of many redoubling.

  • to double
  • to redouble

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezekiel 21:14 ("and you, son of man, prophesy, and clap hand upon hand — and redouble the sword; the third sword of the slain is the great sword of the slain"); Ezekiel 43:2 (behold, the glory of the God of Israel came by the way of the gate looking eastward — and the sound of the camp was as the sound of many redoubling, and the earth shone from the glory round about).

G1361.3

διπλασιασμός (diplasiasmos)

(dee-plah-see-as-MOS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a doubling, duplication (from διπλοῦς, double). The last ledger-line of Job's restoration: 'the LORD gave double as much as was Job's before, unto a doubling' — the noun stacked on the adjective, restitution written twice over the ruin. The grammar of the epilogue becomes a promise for the exiles: 'instead of your shame, double' (Isaiah 61:7), in the chapter Jesus unrolled at Nazareth (Luke 4:17-21).

  • doubling
  • duplication

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 42:10 (and the LORD increased Job; and in his making a vow also concerning his friends, He forgave them their sin; and the LORD gave double as much as was Job's before, unto a doubling).

G1361.4

διπλοΐς (diplois)

(dhee-plo-EES)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun from διπλοῦς (G1362, double); a doubled garment, double cloak — a robe of doubled cloth. The LXX's word for the prophet's and king's robe in the Samuel narratives: the little robe Hannah made Samuel, the robe of Saul torn as the kingdom tore, the robe-corner David cut in the cave.

  • doubled garment, double cloak
  • robe, mantle

Septuagint usage

9 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Samuel 2:19 (the little double-cloak Hannah made and brought Samuel year by year); 1 Samuel 15:27 (Saul seized the hem of Samuel's robe and it tore — as the kingdom from Saul); 1 Samuel 24:4 (David cut off the corner of Saul's double-cloak in the cave); 1 Samuel 28:14 (an old man wrapped in a double-cloak — Samuel perceived at En-dor); Psalm 109:29 (let accusers wear their shame like a double-cloak).

See also

G1362

G1362

διπλοῦς (diploûs)

(dip-looce' | thee-PLOOS | thee-PLOOS)

Definition

from G1364 and (probably) the base of G4119; two-fold; double, two-fold more.

  • twofold, double

See also

G1364, G4119

G1363

διπλόω (diplóō)

(dip-lo'-o | thee-PLOH-oh | thee-PLOH-oh)

Definition

from G1362; to render two-fold; double.

  • to double

See also

G1362

G1364

δίς (dís)

(dece | thees | thees)

Definition

adverb from G1417; twice; again, twice.

  • twice

See also

G1417

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1364.1 below.

G1364.1

δισσός (dissos)

(dees-SOSS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective from δίς (G1364, twice) — double, twofold. In Proverbs the "double weight and double measure" are unclean before the LORD.

  • double, twofold

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 43:12 ("take double the money in your hands" — the return to Joseph); Genesis 45:22 (Joseph's changes of raiment for his brothers); Proverbs 20:10 (a double weight and double measure — unclean before the LORD); Proverbs 31:22 (the excellent wife's double-woven garments).

G1365

διστάζω (distázō)

(dis-tad'-zo | thees-TA-zoh | thees-TA-zoh)

Definition

from G1364; properly, to duplicate, i.e., (mentally) to waver (in opinion); doubt.

  • to doubt, waiver

See also

G1364

G1366

δίστομος (dístomos)

(dis'-tom-os | THEES-toh-mose | THEES-toh-mose)

Definition

from G1364 and G4750; double-edged; with two edges, two-edged.

  • having a double mouth as a river
    • used of the edge of the sword and of other weapons, so has the meaning of two-edged

See also

G1364, G4750

G1367

δισχίλιοι (dischílioi)

(dis-khil'-ee-oy | thees-HEE-lee-oo | thees-HEE-lee-oo)

Definition

from G1364 and G5507; two thousand; two thousand.

  • two thousand

See also

G1364, G5507

G1368

διϋλίζω (diÿlízō)

(dee-oo-lid'-zo | thee-oo-LEE-zoh | thee-yoo-LEE-zoh)

Definition

from G1223 and ὑλίζω (to filter); to strain out; strain at (probably by misprint).

  • to filter through, strain through, pour through a filter, strain out

See also

G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1368.1–G1368.3 below.

G1368.1

διυφαίνω (diyphainō)

(dee-ee-FY-no)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to weave throughout, interweave (διά + ὑφαίνω, to weave; perfect passive participle here). The finished high-priestly robe: its collar-opening 'in the middle, being interwoven closely... unbreakable' — woven in one piece precisely so that it cannot be torn (the command of Exodus 28:32). The same care marks the tunic of the greater Priest, 'seamless, woven from the top throughout,' which the soldiers refused to tear (John 19:23-24).

  • to interweave
  • to weave throughout

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 39:23 (and the cleft of the undergarment was in the middle, being interwoven closely, having an edge round about the cleft, unbreakable).

G1368.2

διφθέρα (diphthera)

(dif-THEH-rah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a prepared hide, dressed leather covering. In the inventory of finished tabernacle work delivered to Moses: 'the leather coverings, the skins of rams dyed red' — the outermost, weather-facing layer of the sanctuary (Exodus 26:14). Glory housed under plain hide: nothing of the gold showed from outside, a sanctuary 'with no form or majesty that we should look at him' from without (Isaiah 53:2).

  • prepared hide
  • leather covering

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 39:34 (and the leather coverings, the skins of rams dyed red, and the coverings of skin of blue, and the veil).

G1368.3

δίφρος (diphros)

(DHEE-fros)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun; seat, chair, stool. The seat of office and rest in the histories — the king's judgment-seat of Deuteronomy's law of the king, Eli's seat by the doorpost of the LORD's temple (from which he fell at the news of the ark), and the chair set for Elisha in the Shunammite's upper room.

  • seat, chair
  • stool, seat of office

Septuagint usage

9 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 17:18 (when the king sits on the seat of his rule, he shall write for himself this law); 1 Samuel 1:9 (Eli on his seat by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD); 1 Samuel 4:18 (at the news of the ark, Eli fell backward from his seat and died); 2 Kings 4:10 (a bed, a table, a chair, and a lampstand for the man of God).

G1369

διχάζω (dicházō)

(dee-khad'-zo | thee-HA-zoh | thee-HA-zoh)

Definition

from a derivative of G1364; to make apart, i.e., sunder (figuratively, alienate); set at variance.

  • to cut into two parts, cleave asunder, sever

See also

G1364

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1369.1 below.

G1369.1

διχηλέω (dichēleō)

(thee-hee-LEH-oh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from δίχα (in two) and χηλή (hoof); to divide the hoof — the technical verb of the clean-animal law: whatever parts the hoof and chews the cud, that you may eat.

  • to divide (part) the hoof

Septuagint usage

11 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 11:3 (whatever divides the hoof and chews the cud); Leviticus 11:4 (the camel chews the cud but does not divide the hoof); Leviticus 11:7 (the swine divides the hoof but does not chew the cud); Deuteronomy 14:6.

G1370

διχοστασία (dichostasía)

(dee-khos-tas-ee'-ah | thee-hoh-sta-SEE-ah | thee-hoh-sta-SEE-ah)

Definition

from a derivative of G1364 and G4714; disunion, i.e., (figuratively) dissension; division, sedition.

  • dissension, division

See also

G1364, G4714

G1371

διχοτομέω (dichotoméō)

(dee-khot-om-eh'-o | thee-hoh-toh-MEH-oh | thee-hoh-toh-MAY-oh)

Definition

from a compound of a derivative of G1364 and a derivative of τέμνω (to cut); to bisect, i.e., (by extension) to flog severely; cut asunder (in sunder).

  • to cut into two parts
    • of the cruel method of punishment used by the Hebrews and others of cutting one in two
  • cut up by scourging, scourge severely

See also

G1364

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1371.1–G1371.2 below.

G1371.1

διχοτόμημα (dichotomēma)

(dee-kho-TO-mee-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun from διχοτομέω (G1371, to cut in two — Matthew 24:51) — a piece of a divided victim. The word of the covenant of the pieces: the smoking firepot and flaming torch passing between "these pieces" while Abram slept — God alone walking the path of the curse.

  • piece (of a divided sacrifice)

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 15:11 (birds of prey descend on the pieces, and Abram sits by them); Genesis 15:17 (the flame passing between the pieces — the covenant sworn); Leviticus 1:8 (the pieces of the whole burnt offering arranged on the altar wood); Ezekiel 24:4 (the pot of choice pieces — the parable of the boiling city).

G1371.2

δίψα (dipsa)

(DHEE-psah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun, cognate with διψάω (G1372, to thirst); thirst. The wilderness word — the waterless land where Israel learned that man lives by what proceeds from the LORD's mouth — and the word of Psalm 69:21, "for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink," fulfilled at the cross (John 19:28-30).

  • thirst
  • a thirsty, waterless condition

Septuagint usage

9 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 8:15 (the great and terrible wilderness — thirst, where there was no water); Nehemiah 9:15 (water from the rock for their thirst); Psalm 69:21 ("for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink"); Isaiah 41:17 (the poor and needy seek water, their tongue is parched with thirst — "I the LORD will hear them").

See also

G1372

G1372

διψάω (dipsáō)

(dip-sah'-o | thee-PSA-oh | thee-PSA-oh)

Definition

from a variation of G1373; to thirst for (literally or figuratively); (be) (a-)thirst(-y).

  • to suffer thirst, suffer from thirst
    • figuratively, those who are said to thirst who painfully feel their want of, and eagerly long for, those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, strengthened

See also

G1373

G1373

δίψος (dípsos)

(dip'-sos | THEE-psose | THEE-psose)

Definition

of uncertain affinity; thirst; thirst.

  • thirst

G1374

δίψυχος (dípsychos)

(dip'-soo-khos | THEE-psoo-hose | THEE-psyoo-hose)

Definition

from G1364 and G5590; two-spirited, i.e., vacillating (in opinion or purpose); double minded.

  • double minded
    • wavering, uncertain, doubting
    • divided in interest

See also

G1364, G5590

G1375

διωγμός (diōgmós)

(dee-ogue-mos' | thee-oge-MOSE | thee-oge-MOSE)

Definition

from G1377; persecution; persecution.

  • persecution

See also

G1377

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1375.1 below.

G1375.1

διωθέω (diōtheō)

(dee-o-THEH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to push away, shove aside (διά + ὠθέω, to thrust; middle here). The indictment of the fat sheep in Ezekiel's shepherd oracle: 'with your sides and your shoulders you shoved, and with your horns you gored... until you thrust them outside.' Strength used against the faltering is what summons the owner Himself: 'I will judge between sheep and sheep... and I will raise up one shepherd, my servant David' (Ezekiel 34:22-23; John 10:11).

  • to push away
  • to shove aside

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezekiel 34:21 (with your sides and your shoulders you pushed away, and with your horns you gored, and all the faltering you squeezed out, until the time you thrust them outside).

G1376

διώκτης (diṓktēs)

(dee-oke'-tace | thee-OKE-tase | thee-OKE-tase)

Definition

from G1377; a persecutor; persecutor.

  • persecutor

See also

G1377

G1377

διώκω (diṓkō)

(dee-o'-ko | thee-OH-koh | thee-OH-koh)

Definition

a prolonged (and causative) form of a primary verb δίω (to flee; compare the base of G1169 and G1249); to pursue (literally or figuratively); by implication, to persecute; ensue, follow (after), given to, (suffer) persecute(-ion), press forward.

  • to make to run or flee, put to flight, drive away
  • to run swiftly in order to catch a person or thing, to run after
    • to press on: figuratively of one who in a race runs swiftly to reach the goal
    • to pursue (in a hostile manner)
  • in any way whatever to harass, trouble, molest one
    • to persecute
    • to be mistreated, suffer persecution on account of something
  • without the idea of hostility, to run after, follow after: someone
  • metaphorically, to pursue
    • to seek after eagerly, earnestly endeavor to acquire

See also

G1169, G1249

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1377.1–G1377.3 below.

G1377.1

διώροφος (diōrophos)

(dee-O-ro-fos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — two-storied, of two decks (δίς + ὀροφή, roof). From the ark's blueprint: 'with ground level, second stories, and third stories you shall make it' — one door in the side, three decks above the flood. The dimensions are salvation-architecture: room made, before the waters came, for all who would be brought in (Genesis 7:1; 1 Peter 3:20).

  • two-storied
  • with a second deck

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 6:16 (and the door of the ark you shall make from out of the side; with ground level, second stories, and third stories you shall make it).

G1377.2

διῶρυξ (diōryx)

(dee-OH-reex)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a channel dug through: canal, aqueduct. Egypt's word in the plagues and in judgment — and Jeremiah's word of the return: led home beside channels of water, on a straight way.

  • canal, aqueduct
  • watercourse

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 7:19 (the Nile struck to blood in its rivers and canals); Isaiah 19:6 (Egypt's canals fail and dry up); Isaiah 33:21 (the LORD majestic for us — a place of rivers and broad canals where no galley passes); Jeremiah 31:9 ("I will lead them beside channels of water, in a straight way" — the new-exodus return).

G1377.3

διωστήρ (diōstēr)

(dee-o-STEER)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a carrying-pole, stave thrust through rings (from διωθέω, to push through). The ark's staves in the tabernacle accounts — delivered with the ark of the testimony, and set beneath it when Moses raised the tent.

  • carrying-pole
  • stave

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 39:35 (the ark of the testimony, and its poles — and the mercy seat); Exodus 40:20 (taking the testimonies, he put them into the ark — and he placed the poles under the ark, and set the mercy seat upon the ark from above).

See also

G185.4

G1378

δόγμα (dógma)

(dog'-mah | THOGE-ma | THOGE-ma)

Definition

from the base of G1380; a law (civil, ceremonial or ecclesiastical); decree, ordinance.

  • doctrine, decree, ordinance
    • of public decrees
    • of the Roman Senate
    • of rulers
  • the rules and requirements of the law of Moses; carrying a suggestion of severity and of threatened judgment
  • of certain decrees of the apostles relative to right living

See also

G1380

G1379

δογματίζω (dogmatízō)

(dog-mat-id'-zo | thoge-ma-TEE-zoh | thoge-ma-TEE-zoh)

Definition

from G1378; to prescribe by statute, i.e., (reflexively) to submit to, ceremonially rule; be subject to ordinances.

  • to decree, command, enjoin, lay down an ordinance

See also

G1378

G1380

δοκέω (dokéō)

(dok-eh'-o | thoh-KEH-oh | thoh-KAY-oh)

Definition

a prolonged form of a primary verb, δόκω (used only in an alternate in certain tenses; compare the base of G1166) of the same meaning; to think; by implication, to seem (truthfully or uncertainly); be accounted, (of own) please(-ure), be of reputation, seem (good), suppose, think, trow.

  • to be of opinion, think, suppose
  • to seem, to be accounted, reputed
  • it seems to me
    • I think, judge: thus in question
    • it seems good to, pleased me, I determined

See also

G1166

G1381

δοκιμάζω (dokimázō)

(dok-im-ad'-zo | thoh-kee-MA-zoh | thoh-kee-MA-zoh)

Definition

from G1384; to test (literally or figuratively); by implication, to approve; allow, discern, examine, X like, (ap-)prove, try.

  • to test, examine, prove, scrutinise (to see whether a thing is genuine or not), as metals
  • to recognize as genuine after examination, to approve, deem worthy

See also

G1384

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1381.1 below.

G1381.1

δοκιμαστής (dokimastēs)

(do-kee-mas-TEES)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — an assayer, tester of metals (from δοκιμάζω, to prove, test). Jeremiah's commission recast in refinery terms: 'I have appointed you as an assayer among peoples being tried; and you shall know, in my trying, their way' — the prophet set over the furnace to read what the smelting shows (the verdict follows: 'rejected silver,' Jeremiah 6:30). The same assay-vocabulary carries to the testing of hearts (1 Thessalonians 2:4) and of faith by fire (1 Peter 1:7).

  • assayer
  • tester

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 6:27 (as an assayer I have appointed you among peoples being tried; and you shall know, in my trying, their way).

G1382

δοκιμή (dokimḗ)

(dok-ee-may' | thoh-kee-MAY | thoh-kee-MAY)

Definition

from the same as G1384; test (abstractly or concretely); by implication, trustiness; experience(-riment), proof, trial.

  • proving, trial
  • approved, tried character
  • a proof, a specimen of tried worth

See also

G1384

G1383

δοκίμιον (dokímion)

(dok-im'-ee-on | thoh-KEE-mee-one | thoh-KEE-mee-one)

Definition

neuter of a presumed derivative of G1382; a testing; by implication, trustworthiness; trial, trying.

  • the proving
  • that by which something is tried or proved, a test

See also

G1382

G1384

δόκιμος (dókimos)

(dok'-ee-mos | THOH-kee-mose | THOH-kee-mose)

Definition

from G1380; properly, acceptable (current after assayal), i.e., approved; approved, tried.

  • accepted, particularly of coins and money
  • accepted, pleasing, acceptable

See also

G1380

G1385

δοκός (dokós)

(dok-os' | thoh-KOSE | thoh-KOSE)

Definition

from G1209 (through the idea of holding up); a stick of timber; beam.

  • a beam

See also

G1209

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1385.1 below.

G1385.1

δόκωσις (dokōsis)

(DO-ko-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — beam-work, the timbered roof-frame of a house (from δοκός, beam). Qoheleth's economics of neglect: 'by slothful neglect the beam-work will be brought low, and in idleness of hands the house will drip' — a roof does not fall in a day; it sags by a thousand omissions. Wisdom's counter-image is the house built and rained on that did not fall (Matthew 7:24-25).

  • beam-work
  • roof-frame

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ecclesiastes 10:18 (by slothful neglect the beam-work will be brought low, and in idleness of hands the house will drip).

G1386

δόλιος (dólios)

(dol'-ee-os | THOH-lee-ose | THOH-lee-ose)

Definition

from G1388; guileful; deceitful.

  • deceitful

See also

G1388

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1386.1 below.

G1386.1

δολιότης (doliotēs)

(dho-lee-O-tees)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun from δόλιος (G1386, deceitful) — deceitfulness, treachery. Peor's aftermath — "with deceits they deal with you" — and the Psalter's steady witness against the braided-deceit tongue.

  • deceitfulness, treachery

Septuagint usage

5 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Numbers 25:18 ("with deceits they deal with you" — the Midianite snare of Peor); Psalm 38:12 (those seeking my hurt speak deceits all the day); Psalm 50:19 (your tongue braided deceits — against your own brother); Psalm 55:23 (men of blood and deceit shall not halve their days — "but I will hope in You").

G1387

δολιόω (dolióō)

(dol-ee-o'-o | thoh-lee-OH-oh | thoh-lee-OH-oh)

Definition

from G1386; to be guileful; use deceit.

  • to deceive, use deceit

See also

G1386

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1387.1 below.

G1387.1

δολίως (doliōs)

(do-LEE-os)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adverb — deceitfully, with guile (from δόλος, deceit). Jeremiah's Jacob-shaped diagnosis of Judah: 'every brother with the heel shall trip, and every friend shall go deceitfully' — the nation of Israel become a nation of Jacobs, heel-grabbing kin (Genesis 27:36). Against a whole society walking deceitfully stands the Israelite 'in whom is no guile' (John 1:47).

  • deceitfully
  • with guile

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 9:4 (let each take guard against his neighbor, and rely not upon their brethren; for every brother with the heel shall trip, and every friend shall go deceitfully).

G1388

δόλος (dólos)

(dol'-os | THOH-lose | THOH-lose)

Definition

from an obsolete primary verb, δέλλω (probably meaning to decoy; compare G1185); a trick (bait), i.e., (figuratively) wile; craft, deceit, guile, subtilty.

  • craft, deceit, guile

See also

G1185

G1389

δολόω (dolóō)

(dol-o'-o | thoh-LOH-oh | thoh-LOH-oh)

Definition

from G1388; to ensnare, i.e., (figuratively) adulterate; handle deceitfully.

  • to ensnare
  • to corrupt

See also

G1388

G1390

δόμα (dóma)

(dom'-ah | THOH-ma | THOH-ma)

Definition

from the base of G1325; a present; gift.

  • a gift

See also

G1325

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1390.1 below.

G1390.1

δόμος (domos)

(DO-mos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a building-course, layer of masonry. The specification of Cyrus's decree for the rebuilt house: three courses of mighty stones and one course of timber — the pattern remembered from Solomon's inner court.

  • building-course
  • layer of masonry

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezra 6:4 (twice — and its height sixty cubits, its breadth sixty cubits — with three mighty courses of stones and one course of timber; and the expense shall be paid from the house of the king).

G1391

δόξα (dóxa)

(dox'-ah | THOH-ksa | THOH-ksa)

Definition

from the base of G1380; glory (as very apparent), in a wide application (literal or figurative, objective or subjective); dignity, glory(-ious), honour, praise, worship.

  • opinion, judgment, view
  • opinion, estimate, whether good or bad concerning someone
    • in the New Testament always a good opinion concerning one, resulting in praise, honor, and glory
  • splendor, brightness
    • of the moon, sun, stars
    • magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, grace
    • majesty
      • the kingly majesty which belongs to Him as supreme ruler, majesty in the sense of the absolute perfection of the deity
      • a thing belonging to Christ
        • the kingly majesty of the Messiah
        • the absolutely perfect inward or personal excellency of Christ; the majesty
      • of the angels
        • as apparent in their exterior brightness
  • a most glorious condition, most exalted state
    • of that condition with God the Father in heaven to which Christ was raised after He had achieved his work on earth
    • the glorious condition of blessedness into which is appointed and promised that true Christians shall enter after their Saviour's return from heaven

See also

G1380

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1391.1–G1391.2 below.

G1391.1

δόξασμα (doxasma)

(DOX-ahs-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a thing of glory, glory-object (from δόξα). Israel's glory at its two extremities: the glory cast down from heaven to earth in Lamentations — and salvation given in Zion to Israel for a glory in Isaiah's promise.

  • thing of glory
  • glorying

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Isaiah 46:13 ("I brought near My righteousness, and it shall not be far off — and the deliverance from Me I shall not delay; I have given salvation in Zion to Israel for a glory"); Lamentations 2:1 (how the Lord clouded over the daughter of Zion in His wrath — He cast down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and did not remember His footstool in the day of His wrath).

G1391.2

δοξαστός (doxastos)

(dox-as-TOS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — glorious, made an object of glory (from δόξα, glory). The covenant's closing crescendo in Deuteronomy: God has made Israel 'famous, and a boasting, and glorious... a holy people to the LORD your God' — glory not achieved but conferred, the LORD glorying in His people. The calling passes to the true Israel and those in Him: 'a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation... that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you' (1 Peter 2:9).

  • glorious
  • made glorious

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 26:19 (and for you to be above all the nations, as He made you famous, and a boasting, and glorious; for you to be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He spoke).

G1392

δοξάζω (doxázō)

(dox-ad'-zo | thoh-KSA-zoh | thoh-KSA-zoh)

Definition

from G1391; to render (or esteem) glorious (in a wide application); (make) glorify(-ious), full of (have) glory, honour, magnify.

  • to think, suppose, be of opinion
  • to praise, extol, magnify, celebrate
  • to honor, do honor to, hold in honor
  • to make glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendor
    • to impart glory to something, render it excellent
    • to make renowned, render illustrious
      • to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged

See also

G1391

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1392.1–G1392.2 below.

G1392.1

δορά (dora)

(do-RAH)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a hide, skin (from δέρω, to flay). Esau at his birth — wholly like a shaggy hide — and Micah's indictment of the oppressors who flay the very skin from the peaceable.

  • hide
  • skin

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 25:25 (the first came forth ruddy, wholly like a shaggy hide — and she called his name Esau); Micah 2:8 (even before, My people stood up against peace — they stripped off his skin, to remove hope in the breaking of war).

G1392.2

δορκάδιον (dorkadion)

(dor-KAH-dee-on)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a young gazelle, little doe (diminutive of Δορκάς / δορκάς, gazelle). In the Babylon oracle: when the day of the LORD falls, the remnant scatter 'as a young doe fleeing, and as a sheep wandering, and there is no one gathering' — prey-animals with no shepherd, each man bolting to his own land. The diminutive sharpens the pity: the smallest and swiftest of the hunted, and still no refuge but flight (Isaiah 13:14).

  • young gazelle
  • little doe

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Isaiah 13:14 (and the ones being left behind will be as a young doe fleeing, and as a sheep wandering; and there is no one gathering).

G1393

Δορκάς (Dorkás)

(dor-kas' | thore-KAHS | thore-KAHS)

Definition

gazelle; gazelle; Dorcas, a Christian woman; Dorcas.

  • the name of a woman Peter raised from the dead

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1393.1–G1393.2 below.

G1393.1

δόρκων (dorkōn)

(DOR-kon)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a buck, male gazelle (masculine of the δορκάς family; the feminine names Tabitha-Dorcas in Acts 9:36). The Song's evening refrain: 'until the day should breathe and the shadows be moved — return! Be like, O my beloved man, the buck or fawn of the hinds upon the encircling mountains.' The bride's word for the bridegroom's swiftness to come — the Song's last verse prays it one final time (Song of Solomon 8:14), the canon's own 'come quickly' (Revelation 22:20).

  • buck
  • male gazelle

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Song of Solomon 2:17 (until the day should refresh and the shadows be moved — return! Be like, O my beloved man, the buck or fawn of the hinds upon the encircling mountains).

G1393.2

δόρυ (dory)

(THO-ree)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Neuter noun; a spear, shafted lance — Goliath's spear with its weaver's-beam shaft, Saul's spear in his hand against David, and the weapon disowned in David's confession that "the LORD does not deliver by sword and spear."

  • spear, lance

Septuagint usage

46 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Samuel 13:22 (no sword or spear found in Israel); 1 Samuel 17:7 (Goliath's spear like a weaver's beam); 1 Samuel 17:45; 1 Samuel 17:47 ("the LORD does not deliver by sword and spear"); 1 Samuel 18:11 (Saul's spear hurled at David); 1 Chronicles 12:8.

See also

G4501, G3057

G1394

δόσις (dósis)

(dos'-is | THOH-sees | THOH-sees)

Definition

from the base of G1325; a giving; by implication, (concretely) a gift; gift, giving.

  • a giving
  • a gift

See also

G1325

G1395

δότης (dótēs)

(dot'-ace | THOH-tase | THOH-tase)

Definition

from the base of G1325; a giver; giver.

  • a giver, bestower

See also

G1325

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1395.1 below.

G1395.1

δοτός (dotos)

(do-TOS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — given, granted; here of a person devoted to God (verbal of δίδωμι, to give; beside the base δότης, giver). Hannah's vow at Shiloh: 'I will put him before You, given until the day of his death; and an iron razor shall not ascend upon his head' — the barren woman's answer to God's gift is to give the gift back whole. Samuel is the vow-child made a lifelong offering, and the pattern of every life presented rather than merely improved (Romans 12:1).

  • given
  • devoted

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Samuel 1:11 (then I will put him before You, given until the day of his death; and an iron razor shall not ascend upon his head).

G1396

δουλαγωγέω (doulagōgéō)

(doo-lag-ogue-eh'-o | thoo-la-goh-GEH-oh | thoo-la-goh-GAY-oh)

Definition

from a presumed compound of G1401 and G71; to be a slave-driver, i.e., to enslave (figuratively, subdue); bring into subjection.

  • to lead away into slavery, claim as one's slave
  • to make a slave and to treat as a slave i.e., with severity, subject to stern and rigid discipline

See also

G71, G1401

G1397

δουλεία (douleía)

(doo-li'-ah | thoo-LEE-ah | thoo-LEE-ah)

Definition

from G1398; slavery (ceremonially or figuratively); bondage.

  • slavery, bondage, the condition of a slave

See also

G1398

G1398

δουλεύω (douleúō)

(dool-yoo'-o | thoo-LEV-oh | thoo-LAVE-oh)

Definition

from G1401; to be a slave to (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary); be in bondage, (do) serve(-ice).

  • to be a slave, serve, do service
    • of a nation in subjection to other nations
  • metaphorically to obey, submit to
    • in a good sense, to yield obedience
    • in a bad sense, of those who become slaves to some base power, to yield to, give one's self up to

See also

G1401

G1399

δούλη (doúlē)

(doo'-lay | THOO-lay | THOO-lay)

Definition

feminine of G1401; a female slave (involuntarily or voluntarily); handmaid(-en).

  • a female slave, bondmaid, handmaid

See also

G1401

G1400

δοῦλον (doûlon)

(doo'-lon | THOO-lone | THOO-lone)

Definition

neuter of G1401; subservient; servant.

  • a slave, bondman, man of servile condition
    • a slave
    • metaphorically, one who gives himself up to another's will those whose service is used by Christ in extending and advancing His cause among men
    • devoted to another to the disregard of one's own interests
  • a servant, attendant

See also

G1401

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