GREEK WORD STUDY

 

PREACH

 

dialegomai to speak throughout, dialogue

 

Acts 20:7, 9 “And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech (logos word, topic, discuss, reasoning, account, communication, preach, talk, reckon, utterance, tidings, treatise) until midnight.  And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutiychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.”          

 

euaggelizo to tell or announce good news, good tidings, declare, evangelize

 

Act 5:42 “And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”

 

kataggello to tell thoroughly

 

Acts 4:2 “Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.”

 

kerusso to cry, proclaim as herald, declare, preach, show, speak of, public crier, publish

 

Acts 28:31Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.”

 

Preach euaggelizo to tell or announce good news, good tidings, declare, evangelize; and kerusso to herald, public crier, preach, proclaim, publish

 

Message: Concerning Jesus Christ; Kingdom of God; Gospel; Good News; Jesus; Word of the Lord; Christ Crucified; Resurrection; Triumphant Return; Eternal Kingdom 

 

Combination of Preaching and Teaching:

 

Acts 5:42 “And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”

 

Acts 15:35 “Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.”

 

Acts 20:7-9 “And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech

 

 

(logos topic, discourse, reasoning, account, communication, preach, tell, reckon, utterance, tidings, treatise, word) until midnight.  And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.  And there sat in the window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.”

 

Acts 28:30-31 “And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, withal confidence, no man forbidding him.”

 

 

PROPHECY

 

propheteia revelations revealed or made known

 

I Thessalonians 5:20 “Despise not prophesyings.”

 

Acts 2:17-18 “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughter shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:”

 

Acts 21:9 “And the same man (Phillip) had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.”

 

I Corinthians 11:5 “But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.”

 

 

TEACH

 

didasko to teach or instruct

 

Matthew 18:20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.  Amen.”

 

Acts 5:42 “And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”

 

Romans 12:6-7 “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether Prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching…”

 

Colossians 3:16 “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

 

I Timothy 2:12 “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

 

II Timothy 2:2 “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.” 

 

didaskalia instruction, doctrine, learning, teaching

 

Romans 12:6-7 “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teach, on teaching…”

 

katag to tell down thoroughly

 

Acts 16:21 “And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.”

 

ketecheo instruct orally, to sound down in the ears, indoctrinate, to apprise of, inform, instruct, teach

 

Galatians 6:6 “Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.”

 

matheteuo to make a disciple, to disciple, learner, imitator, adherence

 

Matthew 28:18-20 “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

 

paideua to train, instruct, train up a child, educate, discipline, teach

 

Titus 2:12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;”

 

Combination of Preaching and Teaching

 

Preach euaggelizo and kerusso; Teach didasko

 

Acts 5:42 “And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”

 

 

Acts 15:35 “Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.”

 

Acts 28:31Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.”

 

 

SPEAK

 

laleo to talk, tell, utter words, preach, say, speak

 

I Corinthians 14:35 “And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”

 

lego to layout, say, tell, speaking, to lay forth, put forth, systematic discourse,   

 

Acts 1:3 “To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.”

 

 

EXHORT

 

parakaleo to call near or to call for

 

Hebrews 10:25 “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”

 

 

EXPOUND

 

ekithemi to put forth

 

Acts 18:26 “And he (Apollos) began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquilla and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.”

 

 

SAID

 

phemi to affirm, say

 

Acts 2:38 “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

 

 

 

TALK

 

laleo to tell, to talk, utter words, say, speak, tell

 

John 14:30 “Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.”

 

homileo-to converse with

 

Acts 20:11 “When he (Paul) therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.”

 

 

TELL

 

anagello to tell, to tell again, to announce (in detail), declare, rehearse, report, show, speak

 

II Corinthians 7:7 “And not by his (Titus) coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.”

 

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