Lexical Summary
diakatelegchomai: To thoroughly refute, to confute, to convict completely.
Original Word: διακατελέγχομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: diakatelegchomai
Pronunciation: dee-ak-at-el-eng'-khom-ahee
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ak-at-el-eng'-khom-ahee)
KJV: convince
NASB: refuted
Word Origin: [middle voice from G1223 (διά - through) and a compound of G2596 (κατά - according) and G1651 (ἐλέγχω - reprove)]
1. to prove downright, i.e. confute
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
convince.
Middle voice from dia and a compound of kata and elegcho; to prove downright, i.e. Confute -- convince.
see GREEK dia
see GREEK kata
see GREEK elegcho
HELPS Word-studies
1246 diakatelégomai (from 1223 /diá, "thoroughly"; 2596 /katá, "contrary to, down against"; and 1651/elenō, "convict, proving what is wrong or shameful") – properly, "prove all the way through" (literally "back-and-forth" until finished); (figuratively) demonstrating an idea (thesis) is true by completely refuting what opposes it, i.e. to fully prevail in a debate by also putting down (2596 /katá) what is wrong (or wrongly opposes the truth, used only in Ac 18:28).
1246/diakatelégomai ("powerfully confute") is an "intensive form of elenō, 'to convict' (dia, 'through,' kata, 'down,' both intensive). Ac 18:28, implies that 'he met the opposing arguments in turn (dia), and brought them down to the ground (kata).' It carries also the thought that he brought home moral blame to them" (Vine, Unger, White, NT, 122).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
dia,
kata and
elegchóDefinitionto confute completely
NASB Translationrefuted (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1246: διακατελέγχομαιδιακατελέγχομαι: imperfect
διακατηλεγχομην;
to confute with rivalry and effort or
in a contest (on this use of the preposition
διά in compos. cf.
Herm. ad Vig., p. 854; (others give it here the sense of completeness; see
διά, C. 2)): with the dative of person (
Winers Grammar, § 31, 1 f.;
Buttmann, 177 (154)); not found except in
Acts 18:28 (
R. V. powerfully confuted).
