Lexical Summary epistomizō: to stop the mouth Original Word: ἐπιστομίζωTransliteration: epistomizō Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-stom-id'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to stop the mouth Meaning: to stop the mouth Strong's Concordance silenceFrom epi and stoma; to put something over the mouth, i.e. (figuratively) to silence -- stop mouths. see GREEK epi see GREEK stoma Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1993: ἐπιστομίζωἐπιστομίζω; (στόμα); properly, to bridle or stop up the mouth; metaphorically, to stop the mouth, reduce to silence: Titus 1:11. (Plato, Gorgias, p. 482 e.; Demosthenes 85, 4; often in Plutarch, and Lucian.) |
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