ἐνισχύω
enischýō · G1765 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to strengthen again, to cause strength to return
To cause someone to regain strength after a temporary loss
ExamplesLuke 22:43 [Now an angel from heaven appeared to Him, strengthening Him.
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to regain strength
To regain one’s physical strength after a temporary loss of it
ExamplesActs 9:19 and he took food and was strengthened. Now for several days he was with the disciples who were in Damascus,
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
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- חָזַק châzaq · H2388 · to be strong, to prevail, to overcome
- Hebrew חָזַק encompasses strengthening, fortifying, and making firm across physical, emotional, and moral domains; Greek ἐνισχύω specifically denotes invigoration or strengthening with focus on empowerment and enabling action.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To regain strength79.65
- This verb describes the recovery of physical strength, used of Saul's condition after his sight was restored and he had taken food — "and he took food and was strengthened" (Acts 9:19).
- To strengthen again, to cause strength to return79.66
- It also describes an outside agent restoring strength to someone else, used of the angel from heaven who appeared to Jesus in Gethsemane, strengthening Him — "an angel from heaven appeared to Him, strengthening Him" (Luke 22:43).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist ἐνισχυσα; (cf. Buttmann, 145 (127)); 1. intransitive, to grow strong, to receive…
1. intransitive, to grow strong, to receive strength: Acts 9:19 (here WH Tr marginal reading ἐνισχυθη); (Aristotle, Theophrastus, Diodorus, the Sept.).
2. transitive, to make strong, to strengthen (2 Sam 22:40; Sir. 50:4; Hippocrates leg., p. 2, 26 ὁ χρόνος ταῦτα πάντα ἐνισχυει); to strengthen one in soul, to inspirit: Lk 22:43 (L brackets WH reject the passage).
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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