Lexical Summary enischyō: to strengthen Original Word: ἐνισχύωTransliteration: enischyō Phonetic Spelling: (en-is-khoo'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to strengthen Meaning: to strengthen Strong's Concordance strengthen. From en and ischuo; to invigorate (transitively or reflexively) -- strengthen. see GREEK en see GREEK ischuo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1765: ἐνισχύωἐνισχύω; 1 aorist ἐνισχυσα; (cf. Buttmann, 145 (127)); 1. intransitive, to grow strong, to receive strength: Acts 9:19 (here WH Tr marginal reading ἐνισχυθη); (Aristotle, Theophrastus, Diodorus, the Sept.). 2. transitive, to make strong, to strengthen (2 Samuel 22:40; Sir. 50:4; Hippocrates leg., p. 2, 26 ὁ χρόνος ταῦτα πάντα ἐνισχυει); to strengthen one in soul, to inspirit: Luke 22:43 (L brackets WH reject the passage). |