STRONGS NUMBER G1993


Word Summary
epistomizō: to stop the mouth
Original Word: ἐπιστομίζω
Transliteration: epistomizō
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-stom-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to stop the mouth
Meaning: to stop the mouth
Strong's Concordance
silence

From epi and stoma; to put something over the mouth, i.e. (figuratively) to silence -- stop mouths.

see GREEK epi

see GREEK stoma

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1993: ἐπιστομίζω

ἐπιστομίζω; (στόμα); properly, to bridle or stop up the mouth; metaphorically, to stop the mouth, reduce to silence: Titus 1:11. (Plato, Gorgias, p. 482 e.; Demosthenes 85, 4; often in Plutarch, and Lucian.)