Lexical Summary psēphizō: to count, calculate Original Word: ψηφίζωTransliteration: psēphizō Phonetic Spelling: (psay-fid'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to count, calculate Meaning: to count, calculate Strong's Concordance to count up, calculateFrom psephos; to use pebbles in enumeration, i.e. (generally) to compute -- count. see GREEK psephos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5585: ψηφίζωψηφίζω; 1 aorist ἐψηφισα; (ψῆφος, which see); to count with pebbles, to compute, calculate, reckon: τήν δαπάνην, Luke 14:28; τόν ἀριθμόν, to explain by computing, Revelation 13:18. (Polybius, Plutarch, Palaeph., Anthol.; commonly and indeed chiefly in the middle in the Greek writings to give one's vote by casting a pebble into the urn; to decide by voting.) (Compare: συγψηφίζω, καταψηφίζω, συμψηφίζω.) |