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Strong's #1514 - εἰρηνεύω
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- to make peace
- to cultivate or keep peace, harmony
- to be at peace, live in peace
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εἰρην-εύω,
I bring to peace, reconcile, D.C. 77.12, gloss on Babr. 39.4.
II intr., keep peace, live peaceably, Pl. Tht. 180b; πρός τινα D.S. 21.16; μετὰ πάντων Romans 12:18 : — Med., πρὸς τοὺς κρείττους εἰρηνεύεσθαι Arist. Rh. 1359b39, cf. OGI 199.1 (Adule); χώρα -ομένη ἐκ παλαιοῦ Plb. 5.8.7.
εἰρηνεύω; (εἰρήνη);
1. to make peace: 1 Macc. 6:60; Dio Cassius, 77 12, etc.
2. to cultivate or keep peace, i. e. harmony; to be at peace, live in peace: 2 Corinthians 13:11; ἐν ἀλλήλοις, Mark 9:50; ἐν ἑαυτοῖς (T Tr αὐτοῖς), 1 Thessalonians 5:13; μετά τίνος, Romans 12:18; (Plato, Theact., p. 180 b. Dio Cassius, 42, 15, etc.; the Sept.).
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εἰρηνεύω
(< εἰρήνη ),
[in LXX chiefly for H7999, H8252;]
1. to bring to peace, reconcile (so 1 Maccabees 6:60).
2. to keep peace, be at peace. Mark 9:50, Romans 12:18, 2 Corinthians 13:11, 1 Thessalonians 5:13 (cf. Sirach 28:9; Cremer, 246).†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
For εἰρηνεύω = ";be at peace,"; as in all its occurrences in the NT, cf. the inscr. from Halicarnassus, Brit. Mus. Inscrr. 8948 (time of Augustus) εἰρηνεύο [υσ ]ι μὲν γὰρ γῆ καὶ θάλαττα, a vivid picture of the Pax Romana, and OGIS 613.4 (A.D. 392) καὶ τοὺς διοδεύοντας καὶ τὸ ἔθνος διὰ παντὸς εἰρηνεύεσθαι ἠσφαλίσατο.
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