STRONGS G134:
αἰνέω,
-ῶ; (found in secular authors of every age ["only twice in good Attic prose" (where
ἐπαιν.
παραιν. etc, take its place), Veitch], but especially frequently in the
Sept. and the Apocrypha of the O. T.; from
αἶνος);
to praise, extol:
τὸν θεόν,
Luke 2:13,
20;
Luke 19:37;
Luke 24:53 [WH omit; Tr text brackets);
Acts 2:47;
Acts 3:8;
Romans 15:11; with the dative of person,
τῷ θεῷ,
to sing praises in honor of God, Revelation 19:5 L T Tr WH, as the
Sept. in
2 Chronicles 7:3 (for (
לְ הוֹדָה),
1 Chronicles 16:36;
1 Chronicles 23:5;
Jeremiah 20:13 etc. (for
לְ הִלֵּל); [Winers Grammar, § 31, 1 f.; Buttmann, 176 (153). Compare:
ἐπ-,
παραινέω.].
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