STRONGS NUMBER G1649


Word Summary
elenxis: reproof
Original Word: ἔλεγξις
Transliteration: elenxis
Phonetic Spelling: (el'-eng-xis)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: reproof
Meaning: reproof
Strong's Concordance
rebuke.

From elegcho; refutation, i.e. Reproof -- rebuke.

see GREEK elegcho

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1649: ἔλεγξις

ἔλεγξις, ἐλεγξεως, (ἐλέγχω, which see), refutation, rebuke; (Vulg.correptio; Augustine,convictio): ἔλεγξιν ἔσχεν ἰδίας παρανομίας, he was rebuked for his own transgression, 2 Peter 2:16. (Philostr. vit. Apoll. 2, 22 (p. 74, Olear. edition); the Sept., Job 21:4; Job 23:2, for שִׂיחַ complaint; (Protevangel. Jacob. 16, 1 τό ὕδωρ τῆς ἐλεγξεως κυρίου (the Sept. Numbers 5:18 τό ὑδδορ τοῦ ἐλεγμοῦ)).)