διαβεβαιόομαι
diabebaióomai · G1226 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to state with confidence, to insist
To state something with confidence and certainty
Examples1 Timothy 1:7 wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.
Titus 3:8 This statement is trustworthy; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and beneficial for people.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- σύyou 1
- Not stated: they 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φροντίζωto ponder 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- περίconcerning, about, for+ τίςwho? what?, why? for what reason? 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- βούλομαιto want, to intend 1
- νοέωto perceive 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- διϊσχυρίζομαι diïschyrízomai · G1340 · to insist firmly, to insist
- διϊσχυρίζομαι and διαβεβαιόομαι both denote strong, confident assertion or affirmation. The distinction is subtle, with διϊσχυρίζομαι perhaps emphasizing the insistent or emphatic nature of the assertion while διαβεβαιόομαι focuses slightly more on the confirmatory aspect, but they are near-synonymous in Koine usage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To state with confidence, to insist33.322
- Used of asserting something with strong conviction, as of the false teachers confidently asserting things they do not understand in 1 Timothy 1:7 and Titus urged to speak confidently and insist on these things in Titus 3:8.
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (διαβεβαιοῦμαι); middle to affirm strongly, assert confidently, (cf. Winer's Grammar, 253…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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