Lexical Summary goēs: a wailer, a sorcerer, a swindler Original Word: γόηςTransliteration: goēs Phonetic Spelling: (go'-ace) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a wailer, a sorcerer, a swindler Meaning: a wailer, a sorcerer, a swindler Strong's Concordance seducer. From goao (to wail); properly, a wizard (as muttering spells), i.e. (by implication) an imposter -- seducer. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1114: γόηςγόης, γοητος, ὁ (γοάω to bewail, howl); 1. a wailer, howler: Aeschylus choëph. 823 (Hermann, et al. γοητής). 2. a juggler, enchanter (because incantations used to be uttered in a kind of howl). 3. a deceiver, impostor: 2 Timothy 3:13; (Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and subsequent writers). |
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