Lexicon diégeomai: to relate fully Original Word: διηγέομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diégeomai Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ayg-eh'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I relate in full, describe Definition: I relate in full, describe, narrate. HELPS word-Studies 1334 diēgéomai (from 1223 /diá, "thoroughly," which intensifies 2233 /hēgéomai, "lead") – properly, to lead (narrate) fully to make plain what has the highest priority. 1334 /diēgéomai ("thoroughly narrate") conveys what is uppermost (has priority), according to the one giving the report or description. [The high level of self-involvement (personal interest) accounts for why this "telling" is always in the Gk middle voice.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom dia and hégeomaiDefinitionto relate fully NASB Translationdescribe (1), described (3), gave an account (1), relate (2), tell (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1334: διηγέομαιδιηγέομαι, διηγοῦμαι (imperative 2 person singular διηγοῦ, participle διηγούμενος); future διηγήσομαι; 1 aorist διηγησάμην; to lead or carry a narration through to the end, (cf. the figurative use of German durchfuhren); set forth, recount, relate in full: absolutely, Hebrews 11:32; τί, describe, Acts 8:33 (see γενεά, 3); τίνι followed by indirect discourse, πῶς etc., Mark 5:16; Acts 9:27; Acts 12:17 (here T omit; Tr brackets the dative); followed by ἅ εἶδον, Mark 9:9; ὅσα ἐποίησε or ἐποίησαν, Luke 8:39; Luke 9:10. ( Aristophanes, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, others; the Sept. often for סָפַר.) (Compare: ἐκδιηγέομαι.)
Strong's declare, show, tell. From dia and hegeomai; to relate fully -- declare, shew, tell. see GREEK dia see GREEK hegeomai |
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