Strong's Greek: 515. ἀξιόω (axioó) -- to deem worthy

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Lexicon

axioó: to deem worthy

Original Word: ἀξιόω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: axioó
Phonetic Spelling: (ax-ee-o'-o)
Short Definition: I account or treat as worthy
Definition: I account or treat as worthy.

HELPS word-Studies

Cognate: 515 aksióō – to reckon as worthy, matching value to actual substance – i.e. worth as it corresponds to reality. See 514 (aksios).

[In the papyri, aksioō can refer to making a "claim" (see P Oxy 237. vi.14, ad 186): "claiming to recover what I had made over to her" (MM, 51). 515 (aksióō) is the root of the English term, "axis."]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from axios
Definition
to deem worthy
NASB Translation
consider...worthy (1), considered worthy (1), count...worthy (1), counted worthy (1), deserve (1), desire (1), insisting (1).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 515: ἀξιόω

ἀξιόω, ἀξιῶ; imperfect ἠξίουν; 1 aorist ἠξίωσα; passive, perfect ἠξιωμαι; 1 future ἀξιωθήσομαι; (ἄξιος); as in Greek writings;

a. to think meet, fit, right: followed by an infinitive, Acts 15:38; Acts 28:22.

b. to judge worthy, deem deserving: τινα with an infinitive of the object, Luke 7:7; τινα τίνος, 2 Thessalonians 1:11; passive with the genitive of the thing, 1 Timothy 5:17; Hebrews 3:3; Hebrews 10:29. (Compare: καταξιόω.)

Strong's

desire, think good, count worthy.

From axios; to deem entitled or fit -- desire, think good, count (think) worthy.

see GREEK axios