Lexicon diaseió: to shake violently, to intimidate Original Word: διασείωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diaseió Phonetic Spelling: (dee-as-i'-o) Short Definition: I blackmail, extort from Definition: I blackmail, extort from, intimidate. HELPS word-Studies 1286 diaseíō (from 1223 /diá, "thoroughly" and 4579 /seíō, "shake") – properly, shake violently, to manhandle (literally, "shake someone to-and-fro"); strongly intimidate, coerce (blackmail, extort), forcing someone to comply under threat (of being physically harmed, treated violently). 1286 /diaseíō ("exhort") is only used in Lk 3:14. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom dia and seióDefinitionto shake violently, to intimidate NASB Translationtake money...by force (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1286: διασείωδιασείω: 1 aorist διεσεισα; in Greek writings from Herodotus down; to shake thoroughly; tropically, to make to tremble, to terrify ( Job 4:14 for הִפְחִיר) to agitate; like concurio in juridical Latin, to extort from one by intimidation money or other property: τινα, Luke 3:14 ( A. V. do violence to); 3Macc. 7:21; the Basilica; (Heinichen on Eusebius, h. e. 7, 30, 7).
Strong's intimidate, extort From dia and seio; to shake thoroughly, i.e. (figuratively) to intimidate -- do violence to. see GREEK dia see GREEK seio |
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