Lexicon
brabeuó: to act as umpire
Original Word: βραβεύωPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: brabeuó
Phonetic Spelling: (brab-yoo'-o)
Short Definition: I rule, arbitrate
Definition: (lit: to act as arbiter in the games), I rule, arbitrate.
HELPS word-Studies
Cognate: 1018 brabeúō – properly, "act as an umpire" (this is also the meaning of this term in classical Greek, as with Isocrates and Demosthenes, etc.); (figuratively) the peace (wholeness) from Christ that He uses to assure (confirm) a believer they are living in His preferred-will (cf. 2307 /thélēma). See 1017 (brabeion).
1018 /brabeúō ("decide as an umpire") means to arbitrate, i.e. "making the call" in "a conflict between contending forces" (Souter), used only in Col 3:15.
[This is also the meaning of 1018 /brabeúō in the papyri.)]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom the same as
brabeionDefinitionto act as umpire
NASB Translationrule (1).