Lexical Summary allēgoreō: to speak allegorically Original Word: ἀλληγορέωTransliteration: allēgoreō Phonetic Spelling: (al-lay-gor-eh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to speak allegorically Meaning: to speak allegorically Strong's Concordance to allegorizeFrom allos and agoreo (to harangue (compare agora)); to allegorize -- be an allegory (the Greek word itself). see GREEK allos see GREEK agora Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 238: ἀλληγορέωἀλληγορέω, (ῶ: (present passive participle ἀλληγοροὺμενος); i. e., ἄλλο μέν ἀγορεύω, ἄλλο δέ νοέω, "aliud verbis, aliud sensu ostendo (Quintilian instt. 8, 6, 44), to speak allegorically or in a figure: Galatians 4:24 (Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, and grammatical writers; (cf. Meyer on Galatians, the passage cited).) |
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