Lexicon eklogé: a (divine) selection Original Word: ἐκλογή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: eklogé Phonetic Spelling: (ek-log-ay') Short Definition: a choosing out, selecting, choice by God Definition: a choosing out, selecting, choice (by God). HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 1589 eklogḗ (from 1537 /ek, "out from and to" and 3004 /légō, "speaking to a conclusion") – properly, selection out of and to a given outcome; (theologically) election. See 1586 (eklegomai). [1589 /eklogḗ ("divine selection") occurs seven times in the Greek NT. The cognate verb 1586 /eklégomai ("select, choose out") occurs 22 times "and is always in the Greek middle voice" (DNTT, 1, 538).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom eklegóDefinitiona (divine) selection NASB Translationchoice (4), choosing (1), chosen (1), those who were chosen (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1589: ἐκλογήἐκλογή, ἐκλογῆς, ἡ ( ἐκλέγω), election, choice; a. the act of picking out, choosing: σκεῦος ἐκλογῆς (the genitive of quality; cf. Winers Grammar, § 34, 3 b.; (Buttmann, 161 (140f))), equivalent to ἐκλεκτόν, namely, τοῦ Θεοῦ, Acts 9:15; specifically used of that act of God's free will by which before the foundation of the world he decreed his blessings to certain persons; — ἡ κατ' ἐκλογήν προφεσις, the decree made from choice (A. V. the purpose according to election, cf. Winer's Grammar, 193 (182)), Romans 9:11 (cf. Fritzsche at the passage, p. 298ff); — particularly that by which he determined to bless certain persons through Christ, Romans 11:28; κατ' ἐκλογήν χάριτος, according to an election which is due to grace, or a gracious election, Romans 11:5; with the genitive of the person elected, 1 Thessalonians 1:4; 2 Peter 1:10. b. the thing or person chosen: equivalent to ἐκλεκτοί, Romans 11:7. (Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus, Dionysius Halicarnassus, others.)
Strong's chosen, election. From eklegomai; (divine) selection (abstractly or concretely) -- chosen, election. see GREEK eklegomai |
