Lexicon asphalizó: to make firm, secure Original Word: ἀσφαλίζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: asphalizó Phonetic Spelling: (as-fal-id'-zo) Short Definition: I make safe Definition: I make safe (secure, fast). HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 805 asphalízō – properly, make safe (fast); used of securely fixing a prisoner's feet in wooden stocks (Ac 16:24). See 804 (asphalēs). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom asphalésDefinitionto make firm, secure NASB Translationfastened (1), made...secure (1), made secure (1), make...secure (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 805: ἀσφαλίζωἀσφαλίζω: 1 aorist passive infinitive ἀσφαλισθῆναι; 1 aorist middle ἠσφαλισάμην; ( ἀσφαλής); especially frequent from Polybius down; "to make firm: to make secure against harm; passive to be made secure": Matthew 27:64 ( ὁ τάφος) ( Buttmann, 52 (46)); middle, properly, to make secure for oneself or for one's own advantage (often in Polybius): Matthew 27:65f; to make fast τούς πόδας εἰς τό ξύλον, Acts 16:24 ( Winers Grammar, § 66, 2 d.; Buttmann, § 147, 8).
Strong's make fast, secure. From asphales; to render secure -- make fast (sure). see GREEK asphales |
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