Lexicon epipléssó: To rebuke, to reprove, to chide Original Word: ἐπιπλήσσω Strong's Exhaustive Concordance rebuke. From epi and plesso; to chastise, i.e. (with words) to upbraid -- rebuke. see GREEK epi see GREEK plesso HELPS Word-studies 1969 epiplḗssō (from 1909 /epí, "upon" intensifying 4141 /plḗssō, "hit") – properly, to strike in a vulnerable place; (figuratively) to strike someone with sharp, insensitive (brutal) words. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom epi and pléssó Definition to strike at, to rebuke (with words) NASB Translation sharply rebuke (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1969: ἐπιπλήσσωἐπιπλήσσω: 1 aorist ἐπεπληξα; a. properly, to strike upon, beat upon: Homer, Iliad 10, 500. b. tropically, to chastise with words, to chide, upbraid, rebuke: 1 Timothy 5:1. (Homer, Iliad 12, 211; Xenophon, Plato, Polybius, others.) |
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