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Strong's #2146 - εὐπροσωπέω
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- to make a fair show
- to please
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εὐπροσωπ-έω,
make a good show, PTeb. 19.12 (ii B.C.), Galatians 6:12.
εὐπροσωπέω, ἐυπροσώπω: 1 aorist infinitive εὐπροσωπῆσαι; (εὐπρόσωπος fair of face, of good appearance); to make a fair show; to please (a weak translation (?); yet Vulg. placere): ἐν, σαρκί, in things pertaining to the flesh, Galatians 6:12. (Elsewhere only in Chrysostom hom. ad Eph. 22 § 5, Works, xi. 173 c., Montf. edition (variant) and several times in Byzantine writings (cf. Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word).)
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**† εὐ -προσωπέω , -ῶ
(< εὐπρόσωπος , fair of face),
[in Al.: Psalms 141:6, v.l. for -ίζω *;]
to look well, make a fair show: metaph. (as in 7.; v. Deiss., LAE, 96), Galatians 6:12.†
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P Tebt I. 19.12 (B.C. 114) ὅπως εὐπροσωπῶμεν, ";that we may make a good show,"; is some three centuries older than the earliest citation hitherto given for this Pauline word (Galatians 6:12).
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