Lexicon harmozó: to fit, join, hence to join oneself to (in marriage) Original Word: ἁρμόζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: harmozó Phonetic Spelling: (har-mod'-zo) Short Definition: I fit, join Definition: I fit, join; mid: (the middle indicating deep personal interest) I espouse, betroth; mid: I take a wife, give in marriage. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom harmosDefinitionto fit, join, hence to join oneself to (in marriage) NASB Translationbetrothed (1), suffer (1), treated (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 718: ἁρμόζωἁρμόζω, Attic ἁρμόττω: 1 aorist middle ἡρμοσάμην; ( ἁρμός, which see); 1. to join, to fit together; so in Homer of carpenters, fastening together beams and planks to build houses, ships, etc. 2. of marriage: ἁρμόζειν τίνι τήν θυγατέρα (Herodotus 9, 108) to betroth a daughter to anyone; passive ἁρμόζεται γυνή ἀνδρί, the Sept. Proverbs 19:14; middle ἁρμόσασθαι τήν θυγατέρα τίνος (Herodotus 5, 32; 47; 6, 65) to join to oneself, i. e. to marry, the daughter of anyone; ἁρμόσασθαι τίνι τινα to betroth, to give one in marriage to anyone: 2 Corinthians 11:2, and often in Philo, cf. Loesner ad loc.; the middle cannot be said to be used actively, but refers to him to whom the care of betrothing has been committed; (cf. Buttmann, 193 (167); per contra Meyer at the passage; Winer's Grammar, 258 (242)).
Strong's espouse. From harmos; to joint, i.e. (figuratively) to woo (reflexively, to betroth) -- espouse. see GREEK harmos |
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