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Greek verb · G1285

διασαφέω

diasapheodee-as-af-eh'-o

to explain

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: diasaphéō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1285is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1285

to clear thoroughly, i.e. (figuratively) declare

The King James renders it: tell unto.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

diasapheo is rendered "to explain". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.

  • Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 13:36Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

Matthew 13:36διασάφησον

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's two uses are in Matthew.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • do explain1
  • they narrated1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

διασκορπίζωdiaskorpizoto scatterUses9
διασώζωdiasozoto saveUses8
διαστέλλομαιdiastellomaito give ordersUses8
διαστρέφωdiastrephoto pervertUses7
διασποράdiasporadispersionUses3
διαστολήdiastoledistinctionUses3
διασπείρωdiaspeiroto scatterUses3
διασπάωdiaspaoto tear apartUses2
διασείωdiaseioto extortUses1
διάστημαdiastemaintervalUses1

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • διασάφησον1
  • διεσάφησαν1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
  • verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular1V-AAM-2S

Matthew

two uses
  • Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

    Matthew 13:36

    • διασάφησονdiasaphesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do explain
  • When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and recounted all of this to their master.

    Matthew 18:31

    • διεσάφησανdiesaphesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they narrated

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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