Lexical Summary kolakeia: flattery Original Word: κολακείαTransliteration: kolakeia Phonetic Spelling: (kol-ak-i'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: flattery Meaning: flattery Strong's Concordance flattering. From a derivative of kolax (a fawner); flattery -- X flattering. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2850: κολακείακολακεία (T WH κολακια (see Iota)), κολακείας, ἡ (κολεκεύω), flattery: λόγος κολακείας, flattering discourse, 1 Thessalonians 2:5. (Plato, Demosthenes, Theophrastus, Josephus, Herodian, others.) |