Sermons & Devotionals by Greek Word Studies
Greek Word Studies
Stroke (tittle) (2762) keraia
Stroke (KJV = tittle) (2762) (keraia from kéras = a horn) means something horn-like and is specifically the apex, point or extremity of a Hebrew letter, these small marks helping to distinguish one Hebrew letter from another. Keraia was a small extension of a letter similar to a serif (any of the sh... Read More
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Strong (loud, mighty, severe, strong man) (2478) ischuros
The evil one (4190)(ho poneros) - see above. Again a reference to Satan. Barclay on overcoming the Evil One - There is the gift of victorious strength. John looks on the struggle with temptation as a personal struggle (James 1:13-15-note). He does not speak in the abstract of conquering evil; he spe... Read More
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Strong (loud, mighty, severe, strong man) (ischuros)
Strong (loud, mighty, severe, strong man) (ischuros from ischuo = to be able) is an adjective which means strong, powerful, mighty (usually referring to inherent physical strength), able, forcible. Strong, having moral power. Inherently strong. Ischuros can describe (1) People - spoken of the powers... Read More
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Strong, be (1743) endunamoo
Be strong (1743) (endunamoo from en = in + dunamóo = strengthen) in simple terms means to put power in (like a car needs gas for power) and thus to make strong or vigorous, to strengthen (active voice) or to be (passive voice) strengthened, enabled or empowered. This word is found only in biblical a... Read More
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Struck down (2598) kataballo
Struck down (2598)(kataballo from katá = down + ballo = throw cast) means literally to cast down (Rev 12:10KJV) or strike down (as being struck with enough force to knock one to the ground) as when one is hit with a weapon. Thayer says the picture "is taken from an athlete or combatant." Wresting or... Read More
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Struggle (3823) pale
Struggle (3823) (pale from pállo = shake, vibrate; related word palaio = wrestle) is used only here in the Bible (not in the LXX). Pale is the literal word for wrestling. As such it pictured hand–to–hand combat between wrestling athletes, this combat in the ancient world being characterized by trick... Read More
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Struggle (73) agon
Fight (73)(agon = root of English agony, agonize) is the noun form of the verb (agonizomai) discussed above and speaks of the conflict or contest for victory in the Olympic and Pythian games. It refers to strife (bitter sometimes violent conflict. Exertion or contention for superiority. Struggle for... Read More
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Stubbornness (4643) skelerotes
Stubbornness (4643) (sklerotes from sklerós = dry, hard, tough, harsh, used, of a stone which is specially hard for masons to work; metaphorically of a king who is inhuman and hard in his treatment of his subjects) describes callousness, hardness or obstinacy (which is the quality of perversely adhe... Read More
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Study (4704) spoudazo
Be diligent (4704) (spoudazo form spoude = haste) conveys the idea hastening to do something with the implication of associated energy or with intense effort and motivation. It suggest zealous concentration and diligent effort. Spoudazo speaks of intensity of purpose followed by intensity of effort ... Read More
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Stumble (4417) ptaio
Stumble (4417) (ptaio) means literally to loose one's footing and so to fall, stumble or “to be tripped up”. To lose one’s footing. Wuest notes that ptaio was used in secular Greek writings to refer to a “sure-footed as a horse that does not stumble” (Xenophon), and thus of a good man (Epictetus, Ma... Read More
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Stumbled (4350) proskopto
Stumbled (4350) (proskopto [word study] from prós = to, against + kópto = cut, strike) means literally to strike against and so to dash against something as one's foot against a stone. Proskopto in its literal use pictures a traveler who bumps against an obstacle and is caused to stumble. Most of th... Read More
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Stumbling (4348) proskomma
Stumbling (4348) (proskomma from prós = to, against + kopto = cut, strike) can describe literal or figurative stumbling. It is something a person trips over. Thus proskomma can be an obstacle in the way which if one strikes his foot against he stumbles or falls or figuratively it can describe that o... Read More
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Stumbling block (4625) skandalon
Offense (4625) (skandalon from a root meaning jump up, snap shut) was originally the piece of wood that kept open a trap for animals. Outside the Bible it is not used metaphorically, though its derivative skandalethron (e.g. a trap set through questions) is so used. The English word scandal is deriv... Read More
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Subject, submit (5293) hupotasso
To be subject (5293) (hupotasso from hupó = under + tasso = arrange in orderly manner) means literally to place under in an orderly fashion. In the active voice hupotasso means to subject, bring under firm control, subordinate as used in (Ro 8:20-note) Hupotasso-38x in 31v - Lk. 2:51; 10:17, 20; Ro ... Read More
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Submit...to decrees(1379) dogmatizo
Submit...to decrees (1379) (dogmatizo from dogma = rule, decree, regulation, ordinance - a formalized rule or set of rules prescribing what one must do) means to put others under obligation by imposition of rules. In the passive sense as used in this passage the idea is to submit to rules and regula... Read More
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Succour (997) boetheo
Boēthéō (997 from boé = a cry, exclamation + théō = to run) means to run on hearing a cry, to give assistance. Boethéo means to succor (KJV reads "He is able to succour them that are tempted") which is a word you may not be too familiar with, but which means literally to run to or run to support hen... Read More
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Suddenly (160) aiphnidios
Suddenly (160)(aiphnidios from aíphnes = unexpected, sudden) describes that which is unexpected or unforeseen. It is something that one cannot anticipate nor understand how it happened. In the present verse aiphnidios is at the beginning of the sentence for emphasis and refers to the sudden, unexpec... Read More
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Suffer (3958) pascho
Suffer (3958) (pascho) means essentially what happens to a person experience. It means to undergo something; to experience a sensation, to experience an impression from an outside source, to undergo an experience (usually difficult) and normally with the implication of physical or psychological suff... Read More
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Suffer hardship with (4777) sugkakopatheo
Suffer hardship with me (4777) (sugkakopatheo from the combination of sun= together, with [speaks of intimate relation] + kakós = evil [of a soldier = cowardly] + patheo = suffer) means to suffer what is bad, to suffer ill treatment, to endure persecution, to suffer misfortune, to be in sorry case, ... Read More
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Suffering (passion) (3804) pathema
Suffering (3804) (pathema describes what happens to a person and must be endured. Pathema is talking about the actual suffering itself (not suffering in general) - it refers to the very pain that we are experiencing right now - those very things that we can "see, touch & feel" - those things that ar... Read More
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Read freely Greek Word Studies from the Austin Precept text commentary of the Bible in text and pdf format. Precept Austin is an online free dynamic bible commentary similar to wikipedia with updated content and many links to excellent biblical resources around the world. You can browse the entire collection of Commentaries by Verse on the Precept Austin website.We have been "bought with a price" to be "ambassadors for Christ" and our "salvation is nearer to us than when we believed" so let us "cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God" "so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming." (1Cor 6:20, 2Cor 5:20, Ro 13:11, 2Cor 7:1, 1Jn 2:28)