Lexicon apostomatizó: To question sharply, to interrogate, to catch in speech Original Word: ἀποστοματίζω Strong's Exhaustive Concordance provoke to speak, interrogateFrom apo and a (presumed) derivative of stoma; to speak off-hand (properly, dictate), i.e. To catechize (in an invidious manner) -- provoke to speak. see GREEK apo see GREEK stoma NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apo and stoma Definition to catechize, i.e. to question NASB Translation question...closely (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 653: ἀποστοματίζωἀποστοματίζω; (στοματίζω — not extant — from στόμα); properly, "to speak ἀπό στόματος (cf. ἀποστηθίζω); 1. to recite from memory: Themistius, or. 20, p. 238, Hard. edition; to repeat to a pupil (anything) for him to commit to memory: Plato, Euthyd., p. 276 c., 277 a.; used of a Sibyl prophesying, Plutarch, Thes. 24. 2. to ply with questions, catechize, and so to entice to (off-hand) answers: τινα, Luke 11:53. |
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