ἐπιστομίζω
epistomízō · G1993 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to silence, to keep someone from speaking
To cause someone to stop talking
ExamplesTitus 1:11 who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of dishonest gain.
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὅςwho, which, that 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δέωto bind, to tie 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
- φιμόω phimóō · G5392 · to muzzle, to keep from eating
- Greek verb meaning to muzzle or silence; used both literally (of animals) and figuratively (of silencing people or spiritual beings), functionally synonymous with ἐπιστομίζω in the sense of stopping speech
Contrasting words 1 word
- λαλέω laléō · G2980 · to speak, to say, to talk
- Greek verb meaning to speak or talk; the direct lexical opposite of silencing someone is enabling or permitting them to speak
In the other Testament 1 word
- חָסַם châçam · H2629 · to muzzle, to block the way
- Hebrew verb meaning to muzzle or stop the mouth; used both literally (of animals) and figuratively (of silencing people), closely parallel to the figurative sense of ἐπιστομίζω
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To silence, to keep someone from speaking33.124
- In Titus 1:11, false teachers upsetting whole families “must be silenced,” using this verb for stopping their mouths from further false teaching.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (στόμα); properly, to bridle or stop up the mouth; metaphorically, to stop the mouth,…
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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