πιθανολογία
pithanología · G4086 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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convincing speech, plausible language
Plausible, but false, speech resulting from the use of well-constructed, probable arguments
ExamplesColossians 2:4 I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 2
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
- χρηστολογία chrēstología · G5542 · attractive speech, fine language
- πιθανολογία and χρηστολογία both denote rhetorically skillful speech used to mislead through an attractive presentation rather than substance. πιθανολογία emphasizes convincing, plausible argumentation, while χρηστολογία emphasizes fine or fair-sounding language; both converge on the concept of deceptive eloquence.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Convincing speech, plausible language33.31
- πιθανολογία names speech crafted to sound persuasive regardless of its truth. Paul explains his purpose in writing plainly to the Colossians: “I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments” (Colossians 2:4, where πιθανολογία is rendered “persuasive arguments”).
Word family 18 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πιθανολογιας, ἡ (from πιθανολόγος; and this from πιθανός, on which see πειθός, and…
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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