Lexicon né: by (a particle of affirmation employed in oaths) Original Word: νήPart of Speech: Particle, Disjunctive Particle Transliteration: né Phonetic Spelling: (nay) Short Definition: swearing by Definition: of affirmative swearing: by, with acc. of person or thing sworn by. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably an intens. form of naiDefinitionby (a particle of affirmation employed in oaths) NASB Translationaffirm (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3513: νήνή, a particle employed in affirmations and oaths (common in Attic), and joined to an accusative of the person (for the most part, a divinity) or of the thing affirmed or sworn by ( Buttmann, § 149, 17); by (Latin per, German bei): 1 Corinthians 15:31 ( Genesis 42:15f).
Strong's by, as sure as Probably an intensive form of nai; a particle of attestation (accompanied by the object invoked or appealed to in confirmation); as sure as -- I protest by. see GREEK nai |
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