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διΐσχυρίζομαι

to lean upon

‘to lean upon’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G1340 Strong's Greek
diïschyrízomai Transliteration
/dee-is-khoo-rid'-zom-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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About this entry

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διισχυριζομαι — transliterated diïschyrízomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to lean upon.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than half of its appearances fall in Luke. First canonically at Luke 22:59, it enters the text early. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
confidently affirm
Modern gloss
to lean upon
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1340 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
Luke 22:59
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Luke 22:59.
Acts 12:15
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Acts 12:15.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 1 · 50%
  • Acts 1 · 50%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%
  • Gospels 1 verse · 50%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Confidently affirmed 1×, She constantly affirmed 1×
  • American Standard Version: Another acts confidently affirmed 1×, She confidently affirmed 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Insisted 1×, She kept insisting 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was insisting 1×, Was insisting that 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1340 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Confidently affirmed” 1×
  • “She constantly affirmed” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1340 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Another acts confidently affirmed” 1×
  • “She confidently affirmed” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1340 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Insisted” 1×
  • “She kept insisting” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1340 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Was insisting” 1×
  • “Was insisting that” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to lean upon
  2. to affirm stoutly, assert confidently

Word origin

Derived from δια (diá) (G1223) — through.

Part of speech: Verb

From G1223 and a derivative of G2478 ; to stout it through that is asseverate : - confidently (constantly) affirm.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1340, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

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