1340. diischurizomai

Strong's Concordance

diischurizomai: to lean upon, affirm confidently

Original Word: διϊσχυρίζομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: diischurizomai
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-is-khoo-rid'-zom-ahee)
Definition: to lean upon, affirm confidently
Usage: I assert emphatically, lean upon.

HELPS Word-studies

1340 diisxyrízomai (from isxyros, "combatively strong," which is intensified by the prefix, 1223 /diá, "thoroughly") – properly, thoroughly assert (intensely affirm), especially in the face of opposition; to "assert emphatically" (Souter).

[The high level of personal self-involvement (personal interest) of this action ("intense asserting") accounts for why it is always in the Gk middle voice.]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from dia and ischurizomai (to rely on something, feel confident); from ischuros
Definition
to lean upon, affirm confidently
NASB Translation
insist (1), insisting (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 1340: διϊσχυρίζομαι

διϊσχυρίζομαι (L WH διϊσχυρίζομαι (see Iota)): imperfect διισχυριζομην;

1. to lean upon.

2. to affirm stoutly, to assert confidently: Luke 22:59; Acts 12:15. (Lysias, Isaeus, Plato, Demosthenes, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 6, 4; Aelian hist. an. 7, 18; Dio Cassius, 57, 23; others.)

δικάζω[δικάζω; 1 aorist passive ἐδικασθην; from Homer down; "to judge, pass judgment: absolutely, Luke 6:37 Tr marginal reading (others, καταδικάζω.]

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

confidently affirm.

From dia and a derivative of ischuros; to stout it through, i.e. Asservate -- confidently (constantly) affirm.

see GREEK dia

see GREEK ischuros

Forms and Transliterations

διισχυριζετο διισχυρίζετο διϊσχυρίζετο δικάζειν δικάζεσθε δικάζηται δικαζόμενον δικάζονται δικάσαι δικάσει δίκασον δικάσω εδίκαζε εδίκαζεν εδίκασας diischurizeto diischyrizeto diischyrízeto

Englishman's Concordance

Luke 22:59 V-IIM/P-3S
GRK: ἄλλος τις διισχυρίζετο λέγων Ἐπ'
NAS: another man [began] to insist, saying,
KJV: after another confidently affirmed, saying,
INT: other a certain strongly affirmed saying In

Acts 12:15 V-IIM/P-3S
GRK: ἡ δὲ διισχυρίζετο οὕτως ἔχειν
NAS: to her, You are out of your mind! But she kept insisting that it was so.
KJV: But she constantly affirmed that it was
INT: but she strongly affirmed thus it was

Strong's Greek 1340
2 Occurrences

διισχυρίζετο — 2 Occ.