Strong's Lexicon

G2358

G2358 — θριαμβεύω

Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

GreekthriambeuoverbOccurrences: 2

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:G2358
Word:θριαμβεύω
Part of Speech:verb
Etymology:from a prolonged compound of the base of G2360, and a derivative of G680 (meaning a noisy iambus, sung in honor of Bacchus)
Language:Greek
Occurrences:2
Transliteration:thriambeuo
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:three-am-byoo'-o
Meaning:1. to make an acclamatory procession 2. (figuratively) to conquer or (by Hebraism) to give victory
KJV Renderings:(cause) to triumph (over)

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

θριαμβεύω; 1 aorist participle θριαμβεύσας; (θρίαμβος, a hymn sung in festal processions in honor of Bacchus; among the Romans, a triumphal procession (Latintriumphus, with which word it is thought to be allied; cf. Vanicek, p. 317));

1. to triumph, to celebrate a triumph (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Appendix, Plutarch, Hdian, others); τινα, over one (as Plutarch, Thes. and Rom. comp. 4): Col 2:15 (where it signifies the victory won by God over the demoniacal powers through Christ’s death).

2. by a usage unknown to secular authors, with a Hiphil or cuasative force (cf. Winers Grammar, p. 23 and § 38,1 (cf. Buttmann, 147 (129))), with the accusative of a person, to cause one to triumph, i. e. metaphorically, to grant one complete success, 2Co 2:14 (but others reject the causative sense; see Meyer at the passage; Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited).

Other Resources

Dictionary of New Testament Theology
Colin Brown

Englishman's Greek Concordance

θριαμβεύω ((cause) to triumph (over))

2 Corinthians 2:14

KJV: Now thanks unto God which always causeth us in Christ and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place
GK: τω δε θεώ χάρις τω πάντοτε θριαμβεύοντι ημάς εν τω χριστώ και την οσμήν της γνώσεως αυτού φανερούντι δι΄ ημών εν παντί τόπω

Colossians 2:15

KJV: having spoiled principalities and powers he made a shew openly triumphing over them in it
GK: απεκδυσάμενος τας αρχάς και τας εξουσίας εδειγμάτισεν εν παρρησία θριαμβεύσας αυτούς εν αυτώ
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