Word Summary
peismonē: persuasion
Original Word: πεισμονήTransliteration: peismonē
Phonetic Spelling: (pice-mon-ay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: persuasion
Meaning: persuasion
Strong's Concordance
persuasion.
From a presumed derivative of peitho; persuadableness, i.e. Credulity -- persuasion.
see GREEK peitho
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3988: πεισμονήπεισμονή,
πεισμονης,
ἡ (
πείθω, which see; like
πλησμονή),
persuasion: in an active sense (yet cf.
Lightfoot on Gal. as below) and contextually,
treacherous or deceptive persuasion, Galatians 5:8 (cf.
Winers Grammar, § 68, 1 at the end). (Found besides in Ignat. ad Rom. 3, 3 [ET] longer recens.;
Justin Martyr, Apology 1, 53 at the beginning; (
Irenaeus 4, 33, 7);
Epiphanius 30, 21;
Chrysostom on 1 Thess. 1:3;
Apollonius Dyscolus, syntax, p. 195, 10 (299, 17);
Eustathius on
Homer, Iliad a., p. 21, 46, verse 22; 99, 45, verse 442; i, p. 637, 5, verse 131; and Odyssey, chapter, p. 185, 22, verse 285.)