διϊσχυρίζομαι
diïschyrízomai · G1340 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to insist firmly, to insist
To state something with firmness and certainty
ExamplesLuke 22:59 And after about an hour had passed, some other man began to insist, saying, “Certainly this man also was with Him, for he, too, is a Galilean.”
Acts 12:15 They said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
How it’s used In 2 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
- ὁthe (definite article) 1
- τὶςsomeone 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔχωto have 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
- διαβεβαιόομαι diabebaióomai · G1226 · to state with confidence, to insist
- διαβεβαιόομαι and διϊσχυρίζομαι both denote confident, emphatic assertion. διαβεβαιόομαι focuses on the certainty and assurance of the affirmation, while διϊσχυρίζομαι (from ἰσχύω, "to be strong") emphasizes the forceful, insistent manner of the assertion; they are near-interchangeable in contexts of emphatic declaration.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To insist firmly, to insist33.321
- Used of maintaining a claim emphatically despite pushback, as of the man who kept insisting that Peter had been with Jesus in Luke 22:59, and the servant girl who kept insisting that Peter was at the door in Acts 12:15.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (L WH διϊσχυρίζομαι (see Iota)): imperfect διισχυριζομην; 1. to lean upon. 2. to affirm…
1. to lean upon.
2. to affirm stoutly, to assert confidently: Lk 22:59; Acts 12:15. (Lysias, Isaeus, Plato, Demosthenes, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 6, 4; Aelian hist. an. 7, 18; Dio Cassius, 57, 23; others.)
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
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