Word Summary
astocheō: to miss the mark
Original Word: ἀστοχέωTransliteration: astocheō
Phonetic Spelling: (as-tokh-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to miss the mark
Meaning: to miss the mark
Strong's Concordance
err, swerve.
From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and stoichos (an aim); to miss the mark, i.e. (figuratively) deviate from truth -- err, swerve.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 795: ἀστοχέωἀστοχέω,
ἀστόχω: 1 aorist
ἠστόχησα; (to be
ἄστοχος, from
στόχος a mark),
to deviate from, miss (the mark): with the genitive (
Winer's Grammar, § 30, 6), to deviate from anything,
1 Timothy 1:6 (Sir. 7:19 Sir. 8:9);
περί τί,
1 Timothy 6:21;
2 Timothy 2:18. (
Polybius,
Plutarch,
Lucian, (others).)