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διανεύω

dianeúō · G1269 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to gesture, to motion, to nod, to beckon

    To signal to someone by means of part of the body, especially by means of the head or hands

    Examples

    Luke 1:22 But when he came out, he was unable to speak to them; and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple, and he repeatedly made signs to them, and remained speechless.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
To gesture, to motion, to nod, to beckon33.485
Used of nonverbal communication substituting for speech, as of Zechariah making signs to the people since he was unable to speak after his vision in Luke 1:22.
Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

νεύω neúō · G3506 · to gesture, to motion, to nod · 2×νυστάζω nystázō · G3573 · to grow drowsy · 2×διανεύωdianeúō · G1269ἐκνεύω ekneúō · G1593 · to withdraw quietly, to slip out · 1×ἐννεός enneós · G1769 · speechless, dumbfounded · 1×ἐννεύω enneúō · G1770 · to gesture, to motion, to nod · 1×ἐπινεύω epineúō · G1962 · to agree, to consent · 1×κατανεύω kataneúō · G2656 · to gesture, to motion, to nod · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon to express one's meaning by a sign, nod to, beckon to, wink at, (διά, because the sign is…
to express one's meaning by a sign, nod to, beckon to, wink at, (διά, because the sign is conceived of as passing through the intervening space to him to whom it is made Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 4): Lk 1:22. (Ps 34:19; Sir. 27:22; Diodorus 3, 18; 17, 37; Lucian, ver. hist. 2, 44; Icarom. 15; (others).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Non-Verbal Communication1 occurrence

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

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