Lexical Summary dosis: the act of giving, a gift Original Word: δόσιςTransliteration: dosis Phonetic Spelling: (dos'-is) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: the act of giving, a gift Meaning: the act of giving, a gift Strong's Concordance gift, giving. From the base of didomi; a giving; by implication, (concretely) a gift -- gift, giving. see GREEK didomi Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1394: δόσιςδόσις, δόσεως, ἡ (δίδωμι); 1. a giving (from Herodotus down): λόγος δόσεως καί λήψεως, an account of giving and receiving (i. e. debit and credit accounts; cf. λόγος II. 3), Philippians 4:15; here Paul, by a pleasant euphemism, refers to the pecuniary gifts, which the church bestowing them enters in the account of expenses, but he himself in the account of receipts; cf. Van Hengel at the passage; so δόσις καί λῆψις, of money given and received, Sir. 41:19 Sir. 42:7; (Hermas, mand. 5, 2, 2 [ET]), and plural Epictetus diss. 2, 9, 12. 2. a gift, (from Homer down): James 1:17. (Synonym: see δόμα, at the end.) |
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