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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #2850 - κολακεία

Transliteration

kolakeía

Phonetics

kol-ak-i'-ah

Origin

from a derivative of kolax (a fawner)

Parts of Speech

feminine noun

TDNT

3:817,451

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

flattery, flattering discourse

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

BSB (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

CSB (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

ESV (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

KJV (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

N95 (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

NAS (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

NLT (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

WEB (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

YLT (1)

1 Thessalonians 1

ASV (1)

of flattery 1

BSB (1)

of flattery 1

CSB (1)

flattering 1

ESV (1)

flattery 1

KJV (1)

flattering 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

flattering 1

N95 (1)

flattering 1

NAS (1)

flattering 1

NLT (1)

flattery 1

WEB (1)

of flattery 1

YLT (1)

of flattery 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

N-GSF 1

ANT

N-GSF 1

BEZ

N-GSF 1

BGB

N-GSF 1

BMT

N-GSF 1

BYZ

N-GSF 1

ELZ

N-GSF 1

NA26

N-GSF 1

SBL

N-GSF 1

SCV

N-GSF 1

STV

N-GSF 1

TIS

N-GSF 1

TRG

N-GSF 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

κολᾰκ-εία, ἡ,

flattery, fawning, Democr. 268, Pl. R. 590b, Grg. 463c, 465b, Thphr. Char. 2, etc.; πολλὴν κολακείαν πεποίηται Aeschin. 3.162, cf. Cic. Att. 13.27.1; περὶ κολακείας, title of treatise by Phld.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

κολακεία (T WH κολακια (see Iota)), κολακείας, ἡ (κολεκεύω), flattery: λόγος κολακείας, flattering discourse, 1 Thessalonians 2:5. (Plato, Demosthenes, Theophrastus, Josephus, Herodian, others.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

* κολακία

(Rec. -εία ), -ας , ἡ

(< κολακεύω , to flatter),

flattery: 1 Thessalonians 2:5 (v. Lft., Notes, 23).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

For the form of this NT ἅπ.εἰρ. (1 Thessalonians 2:5), see WH Notes.2, p. 160. The word carries with it the idea of the tortuous methods by which one man seeks to gain influence over another, generally for his own ends, and when we keep in view the selfish conduct of too many of the heathen rhetoricians of the day (see e.g. Dion Cass. Hist. Rom. lxxi. 35, Dion Chrys. Orat, xxxii. p. 403) we can easily understand how such a charge might come to be laid against the Apostles. For a new work περὶ κολακείας by Philo-demus the Epicurean (B.C. 50) see Rhein. Mus. NF Ivi. p. 623.

List of Word Forms

κεκολαμμένα κεκολαμμένη κεκολαμμένης κεκολαμμένους κολακείας κολακεύων κολακιας κολακίας κολαπτάς kolakeias kolakeías