Lexicon sustatikos: constructive, commendatory Original Word: συστατικός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: sustatikos Phonetic Spelling: (soos-tat-ee-kos') Short Definition: commendatory Definition: commendatory, introductory. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 4956 systatikós – properly, what stands together, referring to a coherent endorsement, or letter of commendation (used only in 2 Cor 3:1). See 4921 (synistēmi). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom sunistémiDefinitionconstructive, commendatory NASB Translationcommendation (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4956: συστατικόςσυστατικός ( Tr συντατικος (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συστατικη, συστατικον ( συνίστημι, which see), commendatory, introductory: ἐπιστολαί συστατικαι ( A. V. epistles of commendation), 2 Corinthians 3:1a, 1b R G, and often in ecclesiastical writings, many examples of which have been collected by Lydius, Agonistica sacra (Zutph. 1700), p. 123, 15; (Suicer, Thesaurus Eccles. ii., 1194f). ( γράμματα παῥ αὐτοῦ λαβεῖν συστατικα, Epictetus diss. 2, 3, 1; (cf. ( Diogenes Laërtius 8, 87); τό κάλλος παντός ἐπιστολιου συστατικωτερον, Aristotle, in ( Diogenes Laërtius 5, 18, and in Stobaeus, flor. 65, 11, 2:435, Gaisf. edition).
Strong's commendable From a derivative of sunistao; introductory, i.e. Recommendatory -- of commendation. see GREEK sunistao |
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