Lexicon exorkistés: an exorcist Original Word: ἐξορκιστής, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: exorkistés Phonetic Spelling: (ex-or-kis-tace') Short Definition: an exorcist Definition: an exorcist, a caster out of evil spirits by the use of names or spells. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 1845 eksorkistḗs – an exorcist; a person expelling demons, adjuring (binding) them by using oaths ("God-formulas," religious incantations). See 1844 (eksorkizō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom exorkizóDefinitionan exorcist NASB Translationexorcists (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1845: ἐξορκιστήςἐξορκιστής, ἐξορκιστου, ὁ ( ἐξορκίζω); 1. he who exacts an oath of another. 2. an exorcist, i. e. one who employs a formula of conjuration for expelling demons: Acts 19:13. (Josephus, Antiquities 8, 2, 5; Lucian, epigr. in Anthol. 11,427; often in the church Fathers.)
Strong's exorcist. From exorkizo; one that binds by an oath (or spell), i.e. (by implication) an "exorcist" (conjurer) -- exorcist. see GREEK exorkizo |
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