Strong's Concordance daknó: to bite Original Word: δάκνωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: daknó Phonetic Spelling: (dak'-no) Definition: to bite Usage: I bite; hence: I backbite, harm seriously. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom a prim. root dak- Definition to bite NASB Translation bite (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1143: δάκνωδάκνω; to bite; a. properly, with the teeth. b. metaphorically, to wound the soul, cut, lacerate, rend with reproaches: Galatians 5:15. So even in Homer, Iliad 5, 493 μῦθος δακε φρενας, Menander quoted in Athen. 12, 77, p. 552 e., and times without number in other authors. A prolonged form of a primary root; to bite, i.e. (figuratively) thwart -- bite. |
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