5497. cheiragógos

Strong's Lexicon

cheiragógos: Guide, leader, one who leads by the hand

Original Word: χειραγωγός
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: cheiragógos
Pronunciation: khay-rah-GO-gos
Phonetic Spelling: (khi-rag-o-gos')
Definition: Guide, leader, one who leads by the hand
Meaning: one who leads a helpless person by the hand.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from cheir and agó
Definition
leading by the hand
NASB Translation
lead...by the hand (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 5497: χειραγωγός

χειραγωγός, χειραγωγον (χείρ and ἄγω), leading one by the hand: Acts 13:11. (Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 48; Plutarch, others.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

leader by the hand.

From cheir and a reduplicated form of ago; a hand-leader, i.e. Personal conductor (of a blind person) -- some to lead by the hand.

see GREEK cheir

see GREEK ago

Forms and Transliterations

χειραγωγους χειραγωγούς cheiragogous cheiragogoús cheiragōgous cheiragōgoús

Englishman's Concordance

Acts 13:11 N-AMP
GRK: περιάγων ἐζήτει χειραγωγούς
NAS: seeking those who would lead him by the hand.
KJV: seeking some to lead him by the hand.
INT: going about he sought some to lead [him] by the hand

Strong's Greek 5497
1 Occurrence

χειραγωγούς — 1 Occ.