Lexicon eparkeo: I aid, relieve, do service, render help Original Word: ἐπαρκέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: eparkeo Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ar-keh'-o) Short Definition: I aid, relieve, do service, render help Definition: I aid, relieve, do service, render help, am strong enough for. HELPS word-Studies 1884 eparkéō (from 1909 /epí, "on, fitting" intensifying 714 /arkéō, "suffice, satisfy") – properly, "make sufficient" by supplying appropriate help, i.e. sharing aid that is especially fit ("apt, meet"). Thayer's STRONGS NT 1884: ἐπαρκέωἐπαρκέω, ἐπάρκω; 1 aorist ( ἐπηρκεσα), subjunctive ἐπαρκέσω; properly, to avail or be strong enough for ... (see ἀρκέω); hence, a. to ward off or drive away, τί τίνι, a thing for another's advantage equivalent to a thing from anyone (Homer), to defend. b. to aid, give assistance, relieve (Herodotus, Aeschyl, others): τίνι, 1 Timothy 5:10; middle, to give aid from one's own resources, 1 Timothy 5:16 according to the reading ἐπαρκείσθω (L text T Tr WH marginal reading) for ἐπαρκείτω (R G L marginal reading WH text); (κατά δύναμιν ἀλλήλοις ἐπάρκειν, Xenophon, mem. 2, 7, 1).
Strong's relieve, assist From epi and arkeo; to avail for, i.e. Help -- relieve. see GREEK epi see GREEK arkeo |
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