Strong's Lexicon
G2358 — θριαμβεύω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
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).
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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