Lexical Summary exēgeomai: to show the way Original Word: ἐξηγέομαιTransliteration: exēgeomai Phonetic Spelling: (ex-ayg-eh'-om-ahee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to show the way Meaning: to show the way Strong's Concordance declare, tell. From ek and hegeomai; to consider out (aloud), i.e. Rehearse, unfold -- declare, tell. see GREEK ek see GREEK hegeomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1834: ἐξηγέομαιἐξηγέομαι, ἐξηγοῦμαι; imperfect ἐξηγουμην; 1 aorist ἐξηγησαμην; 1. properly, to lead out, be leader, go before (Homer, et al.). 2. metaphorically, (cf. German ausführen) to draw out in narrative, unfold in teaching; a. to recount, rehearse: (with the accusative of the thing and the dative of person, Acts 10:8); with the accusative of thing, Luke 24:35; Acts 21:19; without an accusative, followed by relative pronoun or adverb, ὅσα ἐποίησεν, Acts 15:12; καθώς, 14 (so in Greek writings from Herodotus down; the Sept. for סִפֵר, Judges 7:13, etc.). b. to unfold, declare: John 1:18 (namely, the things relating to God; also used in Greek writings of the interpretation of things sacred and divine, oracles, dreams, etc.; cf. Meyer at the passage; Alberti, Observationes etc., p. 207f). |