King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1246
Transliteration: diakatelenchomai
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ak-at-el-eng'-khom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to confute completely
Meaning: to confute completely
διακατελέγχομαι: imperfect διακατηλεγχομην; to confute with rivalry and effort or in a contest (on this use of the preposition διά in compos. cf. Herm. ad Vig., p. 854; (others give it here the sense of completeness; see διά, C. 2)): with the dative of person (Winers Grammar, § 31, 1 f.; Buttmann, 177 (154)); not found except in Acts 18:28 (R. V. powerfully confuted).
Word Summary
diakatelenchomai: to confute completely
Original Word: διακατελέγχομαιTransliteration: diakatelenchomai
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ak-at-el-eng'-khom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to confute completely
Meaning: to confute completely
Strong's Concordance
convince. Middle voice from dia and a compound of kata and elegcho; to prove downright, i.e. Confute -- convince.
see GREEK dia
see GREEK kata
see GREEK elegcho
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1246: διακατελέγχομαιδιακατελέγχομαι: imperfect διακατηλεγχομην; to confute with rivalry and effort or in a contest (on this use of the preposition διά in compos. cf. Herm. ad Vig., p. 854; (others give it here the sense of completeness; see διά, C. 2)): with the dative of person (Winers Grammar, § 31, 1 f.; Buttmann, 177 (154)); not found except in Acts 18:28 (R. V. powerfully confuted).