Strong's Lexicon exorkistés: Exorcist Original Word: ἐξορκιστής HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 1845 eksorkistḗs – an exorcist; a person expelling demons, adjuring (binding) them by using oaths ("God-formulas," religious incantations). See 1844 (eksorkizō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom exorkizó Definition an exorcist NASB Translation exorcists (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1845: ἐξορκιστήςἐξορκιστής, ἐξορκιστου, ὁ (ἐξορκίζω); 1. he who exacts an oath of another. 2. an exorcist, i. e. one who employs a formula of conjuration for expelling demons: Acts 19:13. (Josephus, Antiquities 8, 2, 5; Lucian, epigr. in Anthol. 11,427; often in the church Fathers.) From exorkizo; one that binds by an oath (or spell), i.e. (by implication) an "exorcist" (conjurer) -- exorcist. see GREEK exorkizo |