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Greek verb · G653

ἀποστοματίζω

apostomatizoap-os-tom-at-id'-zo

In cl., to speak from memory, to dic­tate to a pupil (Plat.).; In late Gk.

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

Concordance spelling: apostomatízō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G653is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G653

to speak off-hand (properly, dictate), i.e. to catechize (in an invidious manner)

The King James renders it: provoke to speak.

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

apostomatizo is rendered "In cl., to speak from memory, to dic­tate to a pupil (Plat.).; In late Gk.". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "In cl., to speak from memory, to dic­tate to a pupil (Plat.).".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 11:53As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,

The first use

As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,

Luke 11:53ἀποστοματίζειν

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

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: In cl., to speak from memory, to dic­tate to a pupil (Plat.)., and In late Gk..

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
In cl., to speak from memory, to dic­tate to a pupil (Plat.).Tagged aslisted under the tableWhereLuke 11:53As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply…
In late Gk.to catechize, questionTagged as
  • to make speak1
WhereLuke 11:53As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply…

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.

ἀποστέλλωapostelloto sendUses132
ἀπόστολοςapostolosapostleUses79
ἀποστρέφωapostrephoto turn awayUses9
ἀποστερέωapostereoto defraudUses6
ἀποσπάωapospaoto draw awayUses4
ἀποστολήapostoleapostleshipUses4
ἀποστάσιονapostasiondivorceUses3
ἀποσυνάγωγοςaposynagogosexcommunicatedUses3
ἀποστασίαapostasiaapostasyUses2
ἀποστυγέωapostygeoto abhorUses1
ἀποσκευάζωaposkeuazoto pack upUses1
ἀποσκίασμαaposkiasmashadowUses1

and 1 more on the stem.

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling 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

  • ἀποστοματίζειν1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN

Luke

one use
  • As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,

    Luke 11:53

    • ἀποστοματίζεινapostomatizeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make speak

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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