αὐθεντέω: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἀυθέντω; (a Biblical and ecclesiastical [[word]]; from [[αὐθέντης]] [[contracted]] from [[αὐτοέντης]], and [[this]] from [[αὐτός]] and [[ἔντεα]] [[arms]] (others, ἑντης, cf. Hesychius συνεντης [[συνεργός]]; cf. Lobeck, Technol., p. 121); [[hence]],<br /><b class="num">a.</b> according to earlier [[usage]], [[one]] [[who]] [[with]] his [[own]] [[hand]] kills [[either]] others or [[himself]].<br /><b class="num">b.</b> in [[later]] Greek writings [[one]] [[who]] does a [[thing]] [[himself]] the [[author]]" (τῆς πράξεως, [[Polybius]] 23,14, 2, etc.); [[one]] [[who]] acts on his [[own]] [[authority]], [[autocratic]], equivalent to [[αὐτοκράτωρ]] an [[absolute]] [[master]]; cf. Lobeck ad Phryn., p. 120 ([[also]] as [[above]]; cf. Winer s Grammar, § 2,1c.)); to [[govern]] [[one]], [[exercise]] [[dominion]] [[over]] [[one]]: τινς, 1 Timothy 2:12.