Lexicon horkizó: to make (one) swear, to adjure Original Word: ὁρκίζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: horkizó Phonetic Spelling: (hor-kid'-zo) Short Definition: I adjure by, charge solemnly by Definition: I adjure by, charge solemnly by. HELPS word-Studies 3726 horkízō (from 3727 /hórkos, "an oath") – properly, make someone swear (as in Xenophon, Polybius); to adjure (Abbott-Smith), i.e. to bind under the obligation of oath. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom horkosDefinitionto make (one) swear, to adjure NASB Translationadjure (1), implore (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3726: ὁρκίζωὁρκίζω; ( ὅρκος); 1. to force to take an oath, to administer an oath to: Xenophon, conviv. 4, 10; Demosthenes, Polybius; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 361. 2. to adjure (solemnly implore), with two accusative of person, viz. of the one who is adjured and of the one by whom he is adjured (cf. Matthiae, § 413, 10; (Buttmann, 147 (128))): 1 Thessalonians 5:27 R G (see ἐνορκίζω); Mark 5:7; Acts 19:13. (the Sept. for הִשְׁבִּיעַ , τινα followed by κατά with the genitive, 1 Kings 2:42 (); 2 Chronicles 36:13; ἐν, Nehemiah 13:25.) (Compare: ἐνορκίζω, ἐξορκίζω.)
Strong's adjure, charge. From horkos; to put on oath, i.e. Make swear; by analogy, to solemnly enjoin -- adjure, charge. see GREEK horkos |
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