Lexical Summary diakatelenchomai: to confute completely Original Word: διακατελέγχομαιTransliteration: diakatelenchomai Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ak-at-el-eng'-khom-ahee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to confute completely Meaning: to confute completely Strong's Concordance convince. Middle voice from dia and a compound of kata and elegcho; to prove downright, i.e. Confute -- convince. see GREEK dia see GREEK kata see GREEK elegcho Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1246: διακατελέγχομαιδιακατελέγχομαι: imperfect διακατηλεγχομην; to confute with rivalry and effort or in a contest (on this use of the preposition διά in compos. cf. Herm. ad Vig., p. 854; (others give it here the sense of completeness; see διά, C. 2)): with the dative of person (Winers Grammar, § 31, 1 f.; Buttmann, 177 (154)); not found except in Acts 18:28 (R. V. powerfully confuted). |