Lexicon diastelló: to set apart, fig. to distinguish, to charge expressly Original Word: διαστέλλομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diastelló Phonetic Spelling: (dee-as-tel'-lom-ahee) Short Definition: I give a commission, order Definition: I give a commission (instructions), order; I admonish, prohibit. HELPS word-Studies 1291 diastéllomai (from 1223 /diá, "through, thorough," which intensifies 4724 /stéllō, "send") – properly, send through (effectively divide), referring to giving an explicit command – i.e. that is unambiguously clear. [1291 (diastéllomai) means "to command (charge) expressly"; "originally, . . . 'to put asunder'; hence, 'to distinguish,' and so of a commandment or injunction to distinguish" (as), i.e. is expressly clear" (A-S).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom dia and stellóDefinitionto set apart, fig. to distinguish, to charge expressly NASB Translationcommand (1), gave...orders (3), gave...instruction (1), giving orders (1), ordered (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1291: διαστέλλωδιαστέλλω: to draw asunder, divide, distinguish, dispose, order, ( Plato, Polybius, Diodorus, Strabo, Plutarch; often in the Sept.); passive τό διαστελλόμενον, the injunction: Hebrews 12:20 (2 Macc. 14:28). Middle, (present διαστέλλομαι); imperfect διεστελλομην; 1 aorist διεστειλαμην; to open oneself, i. e. one's mind, to set forth distinctly, ( Aristotle, Polybius); hence, in the N. T. (so Ezekiel 3:18, 19; Judith 11:12) to admonish, order, charge: τίνι, Mark 8:15; Acts 15:24; followed by ( ἵνα (cf. Buttmann, 237 (204)), Matthew 16:20 R T Tr WH marginal reading; Mark 7:36; Mark 9:9; διεστείλατο πολλά, ἵνα etc. Mark 5:43.
Strong's set apart for service, distinguish Middle voice from dia and stello; to set (oneself) apart (figuratively, distinguish), i.e. (by implication) to enjoin -- charge, that which was (give) commanded(-ment). see GREEK dia see GREEK stello |
