Lexicon exomologeó: to agree, confess Original Word: ἐξομολογέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: exomologeó Phonetic Spelling: (ex-om-ol-og-eh'-o) Short Definition: I consent fully, confess Definition: (a) I consent fully, agree out and out, (b) I confess, admit, acknowledge (cf. the early Hellenistic sense of the middle: I acknowledge a debt), (c) I give thanks, praise. HELPS word-Studies 1843 eksomologéō (from 1537 /ek, "wholly out from," intensifying 3670 /homologéō, "say the same thing about") – properly, fully agree and to acknowledge that agreement openly (whole-heartedly); hence, to confess ("openly declare"), without reservation (no holding back). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ek and homologeóDefinitionto agree, confess NASB Translationconfess (2), confessed (1), confessing (2), consented (1), give praise (2), praise (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1843: ἐξομολογέωἐξομολογέω, ἐξομολόγω: 1 aorist ἐξωμολόγησα; middle, (present εξ( ὀμολογοῦμαι); future ἐξομολογήσομαί; (1 aorist subjunctive 3 person singular ἐξομολογήσηται, Philippians 2:11 R G L text Tr text WH); ( ἐξ either forth from the heart, freely, or publicly, openly (cf. Winers Grammar, 102 (97))); active and deponent middle to confess, to profess; 1. to confess: τάς ἁμαρτίας, Matthew 3:6; Mark 1:5; (James 5:16 L T Tr WH) (Josephus, Antiquities 8, 4, 6; (cf. b. j. 5, 10, 5; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 51, 3 [ET]; the Epistle of Barnabas 19, 12 [ET])); τάς πράξεις, Acts 19:18; τά παραπτώματα, James 5:16 R G; (ἡτταν, Plutarch, Eum c. 17; τήν ἀλήθειαν ἄνευ βασάνων, id. Anton c. 59). 2. to profess i. e. to acknowledge openly and joyfully: τό ὄνομα τίνος, Revelation 3:5 Rec.; followed by ὅτι, Philippians 2:11; with the dative of person (cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 1 f.; Buttmann, 176 (153)) to one's honor, i. e. to celebrate, give praise to (so the Sept. for לְ הודָה, Psalm 29:5 (); Psalm 105:47 (); Psalm 121:4 (), etc.; (Winer's Grammar, 32)): Romans 14:11; Romans 15:9 from Psalm 17:50 () (Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 61, 3 [ET]); τίνι (the dative of person) followed by ὅτι: Matthew 11:25; Luke 10:21. to profess that one will do something, to promise, agree, engage: Luke 22:6 (Lachmann omits); (in this sense the Greeks and Josephus use ὁμολογεῖν).
Strong's confess, profess, promise. From ek and homologeo; to acknowledge or (by implication, of assent) agree fully -- confess, profess, promise. see GREEK ek see GREEK homologeo |
