Lexical Summary engyos: under good security (adjective), guarantee (noun) Original Word: ἔγγυοςTransliteration: engyos Phonetic Spelling: (eng'-goo-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: under good security (adjective), guarantee (noun) Meaning: under good security, guarantee (noun) Strong's Concordance surety. From en and guion (a limb); pledged (as if articulated by a member), i.e. A bondsman -- surety. see GREEK en Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1450: ἔγγυοςἔγγυος, ἐγγύου, ὁ, ἡ, a surety, (Cicero and Vulg. sponsor): κρείττονος διαθήκης ἔγγυος, he by whom we get full assurance of the more excellent covenant made by God with us, and of the truth and stability of the promises connected with it, Hebrews 7:22. (2 Macc. 10:28; Sir. xxix., 15f Xenophon, vect. 4, 20; Aeschines Epistles 11, 12, p. 128 a.; Aristotle, oec. 2, 22 (vol. ii., p. 1350{a}, 19), Polybius, Diodorus, others.) |
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