Lexicon eilikrineia: clearness, by impl. purity, sincerity Original Word: εἰλικρίνεια, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: eilikrineia Phonetic Spelling: (i-lik-ree'-ni-ah) Short Definition: clearness, sincerity, purity Definition: clearness, sincerity, purity. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 1505 eilikríneia – literally, "judged in the light of the sun"; i.e. pure inner motives ("sincerity"). See 1506 (eilikrines). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom eilikrinésDefinitionclearness, by impl. purity, sincerity NASB Translationsincerity (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1505: εἰλικρίνειαεἰλικρίνεια ( ἐιλικρινια T ( WH, see Iota; on the breathing see WH's Appendix, p. 144)), εἰλικρινείας, ἡ ( εἰλικρινής, which see), purity, sincerity, ingenuousness: 1 Corinthians 5:8; 2 Corinthians 2:17; τοῦ Θεοῦ, which God effects by the Holy Spirit, 2 Corinthians 1:12 ( Winers Grammar, § 36, 3 b.). ( Theophrastus, Sextus Empiricus, Stobaeus)
Strong's sincerity. From eilikrines; clearness, i.e. (by implication) purity (figuratively) -- sincerity. see GREEK eilikrines |
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