Lexicon apophtheggomai: to speak forth Original Word: ἀποφθέγγομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: apophtheggomai Phonetic Spelling: (ap-of-theng'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I speak out, declare Definition: I speak out, declare. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apo and phtheggomaiDefinitionto speak forth NASB Translationdeclared (1), utter (1), utterance (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 669: ἀποφθέγγομαιἀποφθέγγομαι; 1 aorist ἀπεφθεγξαμην; to speak out, speak forth, pronounce, not a word of everyday speech, but one "belonging to dignified and elevated discourse, like the Latin profari, pronuntiare; properly it has the force of to utter or declare oneself, give one's opinion ( einenAusspruchthun), and is used not only of prophets (see Kypke on Acts 2:4 — adding from the Sept. Ezekiel 13:9; Micah 5:12; 1 Chronicles 25:1), but also of wise men and philosophers (Diag. Laërtius 1, 63; 73; 79; whose pointed sayings the Greeks call ἀποφθέγματα, Cicero, off. 1, 29)"; (see φθέγγομαι). Accordingly, "it is used of the utterances of the Christians, and especially Peter, on that illustrious day of Pentecost after they had been fired by the Holy Spirit, Acts 2:4, 14; and also of the disclosures made by Paul to (before) king Agrippa concerning the ἀποκάλυψις κυρίου that had been given him, Acts 26:25." Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 16.
Strong's say, speak forth, utter From apo and phtheggomai; to enunciate plainly, i.e. Declare -- say, speak forth, utterance. see GREEK apo see GREEK phtheggomai |
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