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ἀμύνομαι

amýnomai · G292 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to help

    To assist by intervening on behalf of, primarily in terms of defense

    Examples

    Acts 7:24 “And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended and took vengeance for the oppressed man by fatally striking the Egyptian.

How it’s used In 1 role

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
βοηθέω boēthéō · G997 · to help
Greek verb expressing helping or coming to aid, sharing the same Louw-Nida semantic domain (35.3) and closely overlapping with the protective assistance sense of ἀμύνομαι, though βοηθέω is more general help while ἀμύνομαι emphasizes defensive action
In the other Testament 1 word
נָצַל nâtsal · H5337 · remove (violently), to pluck out, to snatch from
Hebrew verb for delivering/rescuing oneself or others from danger, closely corresponding to the defensive protection sense of ἀμύνομαι; both express the idea of warding off harm or delivering from threat
Semantic domains 1 entry
To help35.3
In Acts 7:24, Moses “saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended (ēmýnato) and took vengeance for the oppressed man by fatally striking the Egyptian,” describing coming to the aid of someone being wronged.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist middle ἠμυνάμην; (allied with Latinmunio,moenia, etc., Vanicek, p. 731;…
: 1 aorist middle ἠμυνάμην; (allied with Latinmunio,moenia, etc., Vanicek, p. 731; Curtius, § 451); in Greek writings (from Homer down) to ward off, keep off anything from anyone, τί τίνι, accusative of the thing and the dative of person; hence, with a simple dative of the person, to aid, assist anyone (Thucydides 1, 50; 3, 67, elsewhere). Middle ἀμύνομαι, with accusative of person, to keep off, ward off, anyone from oneself; to defend oneself against anyone (so also 2 Macc. 10:17; Wis. 11:3; the Sept. Josh 10:13); to take vengeance on anyone (Xenophon, an. 2, 3,23; Josephus, Antiquities 9, 1, 2): Acts 7:24, where in thought supply τόν ἀδικοῦντα (cf. Buttmann, 194 (168) note; Winer's Grammar, 258 (242)).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Help1 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

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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