Lexical Summary diallassomai: change, exchange Original Word: διαλλάσσομαιTransliteration: diallassomai Phonetic Spelling: (dee-al-las'-so) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: change, exchange Meaning: change, exchange Strong's Concordance reconcile. From dia and allasso; to change thoroughly, i.e. (mentally) to conciliate -- reconcile. see GREEK dia see GREEK allasso Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1259: διαλλάσσωδιαλλάσσω: 2 aorist passive διηλλαγην; (see διά, C. 6); 1. to change: τί ἀντί τίνος (cf. Winer's Grammar, 206 (194)). 2. to change the mind of anyone, to reconcile (so from (Aeschylus) Thucydides down): τινα τίνι. Passive to be reconciled, τίνι, to renew friendship with one: Matthew 5:24; (1 Samuel 29:4; 1 Esdr. 4:31). See Fritzsche's learned discussion of this word in his Commentary on Romans, vol. i., p. 276ff (in opposed to Tittmann's view that it implies mutual enmity; see καταλλάσσω, at the end); cf. Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part v., pp. 7, 10; (Tholuck, Bergrede Christi, p. 171 (on Matthew 5:24)). |