ἐξομολογέω
Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
French (Bailly abrégé)
-ῶ :
avouer, confesser, acc..
Étymologie: ἐξ, ὁμολογέω.
English (Strong)
from ἐκ and ὁμολογέω; to acknowledge or (by implication, of assent) agree fully: confess, profess, promise.
English (Thayer)
ἐξομολόγω: 1st aorist ἐξωμολόγησα; middle, (present εξ(ὀμολογοῦμαι); future ἐξομολογήσομαί; (1st aorist subjunctive 3rd person singular ἐξομολογήσηται, R G L text Tr text WH); (ἐξ either forth from the heart, freely, or publicly, openly (cf. Winer s Grammar, 102 (97))); active and deponent middle to confess, to profess;
1. to confess: τάς ἁμαρτίας, L T Tr WH) (Josephus, Antiquities 8,4, 6; (cf. b. j. 5,10, 5; Clement of Rome, 1 Corinthians 51,3 [ET]; the Epistle of Barnabas 19,12 [ET])); τάς πράξεις, τά παραπτώματα, R G; (ἡτταν, Plutarch, Eum c. 17; τήν ἀλήθειαν ἄνευ βασάνων, id. Anton c. 59).
2. to profess i. e. to acknowledge openly and joyfully: τό ὄνομα τίνος, followed by ὅτι, Winer s Grammar, § 31,1f.; Buttmann, 176 (153)) to one's honor, i. e. to celebrate, give praise to (so the Sept. for לְ הודָה, Winer's Grammar, 32)): Clement of Rome, 1 Corinthians 61,3 [ET]); τίνι (the dative of person) followed by ὅτι: to profess that one will do something, to promise, agree, engage: Josephus use ὁμολογεῖν).
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἐξομολογέω: 1) соглашаться, обещать NT;
2) med. сознаваться, признавать полностью (τὴν ἀλήθειαν Plut.; τὰς ἁμαρτίας NT; ὅτι … Luc.).
