Lexical Summary pithanologia: persuasive speech Original Word: πιθανολογίαTransliteration: pithanologia Phonetic Spelling: (pith-an-ol-og-ee'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: persuasive speech Meaning: persuasive speech Strong's Concordance persuasive speechFrom a compound of a derivative of peitho and logos; persuasive language -- enticing words. see GREEK peitho see GREEK logos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4086: πιθανολογίᾳπιθανολογίᾳ, πιθανολογιας, ἡ (from πιθανολόγος; and this from πιθανός, on which see πειθός, and λόγος), speech adapted to persuade, discourse in which probable arguments are adduced; once so in classical Greek, viz. Plato, Theact., p. 162 e.; in a bad sense, persuasiveness of speech, specious discourse leading others into error: Colossians 2:4, and several times in ecclesiastical writers. |
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