Lexical Summary anakephalaioō: to sum up, gather up Original Word: ἀνακεφαλαιόωTransliteration: anakephalaioō Phonetic Spelling: (an-ak-ef-al-ah'-ee-om-ahee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to sum up, gather up Meaning: to sum up, gather up Strong's Concordance summarize.From ana and kephalaioo (in its original sense); to sum up -- briefly comprehend, gather together in one. see GREEK ana see GREEK kephalaioo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 346: ἀνακεφαλαιόωἀνακεφαλαιόω, (ῶ: (present passive ἀνακεφαλαιοῦμαι; 1 aorist middle infinitive ἀνακεφαλαιώσασθαι); (from κεφαλαιόω, which see, and this from κεφάλαιον which see); to sum up (again), to repeat summarily and so to condense into a summary (as, the substance of a speech; Quintilian 6.1 'rerumrepetitioetcongregatio,quaegraece ἀνακεφαλαίωσιςdicitur' (ἔργον ῥητορικῆς ... ἀνακεφαλαιώσασθαι πρός ἀνάμνησιν, Aristotle, fragment 123, vol. v., p. 1499{a}, 33)); so in Romans 13:9. In Ephesians 1:10 God is said ἀνακεφαλαιώσασθαι τά πάντα ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ, to bring together again for himself (note the middle) all things and beings (hitherto disunited by sin) into one combined state of fellowship in Christ, the universal bond (cf. Meyer or Ellicott on Ephesians, the passage cited); (Protevangelium Jacobi 13εἰς ἐμέ ἀνεκεφαλαιώθη ἡ ἱστορία Ἀδάμ, where cf. Thilo). |
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