χρηστολογία
chrēstología · G5542 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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attractive speech, fine language
Eloquent and attractive speech involving pleasing rhetorical devices
ExamplesRomans 16:18 For such people are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διάthrough 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
- πιθανολογία pithanología · G4086 · convincing speech, plausible language
- Both terms denote persuasive speech, with related but distinguishable emphases: χρηστολογία emphasizes the surface attractiveness of the language used ('fine speaking'), while πιθανολογία emphasizes logical plausibility ('convincing argument'). Both fall within the same subcategory of rhetorically effective speech, differentiated by whether the persuasive quality is one of pleasant style or of apparent reasoning.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Attractive speech, fine language33.30
- Romans 16:18 warns that such people “by smooth and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting”.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon χρηστολογίας, ἡ (from χρηστολόγος, and this from χρηστός, which see, and λέγω; cf. Julius…
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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