Strong's Concordance harmozó: to fit, join, hence to join oneself to (in marriage) Original Word: ἁρμόζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: harmozó Phonetic Spelling: (har-mod'-zo) Definition: to fit, join, to join oneself to (in marriage) Usage: I fit, join; mid: (the middle indicating deep personal interest) I espouse, betroth; mid: I take a wife, give in marriage. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom harmos Definition to fit, join, hence to join oneself to (in marriage) NASB Translation betrothed (1), suffer (1), treated (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 718: ἁρμόζωἁρμόζω, Attic ἁρμόττω: 1 aorist middle ἡρμοσάμην; (ἁρμός, which see); 1. to join, to fit together; so in Homer of carpenters, fastening together beams and planks to build houses, ships, etc. 2. of marriage: ἁρμόζειν τίνι τήν θυγατέρα (Herodotus 9, 108) to betroth a daughter to anyone; passive ἁρμόζεται γυνή ἀνδρί, the Sept. Proverbs 19:14; middle ἁρμόσασθαι τήν θυγατέρα τίνος (Herodotus 5, 32; 47; 6, 65) to join to oneself, i. e. to marry, the daughter of anyone; ἁρμόσασθαι τίνι τινα to betroth, to give one in marriage to anyone: 2 Corinthians 11:2, and often in Philo, cf. Loesner ad loc.; the middle cannot be said to be used actively, but refers to him to whom the care of betrothing has been committed; (cf. Buttmann, 193 (167); per contra Meyer at the passage; Winer's Grammar, 258 (242)). From harmos; to joint, i.e. (figuratively) to woo (reflexively, to betroth) -- espouse. see GREEK harmos |