STRONGS G669:
ἀποφθέγγομαι; 1 aorist
ἀπεφθεγξάμην;
to speak out, speak forth, pronounce, not a word of everyday speech, but one "belonging to dignified and elevated discourse, like the Latin
profari,
pronuntiare; properly it has the force of
to utter or
declare oneself, give one's opinion (
einen Ausspruch thun), and is used not only of prophets (see Kypke on
Acts 2:4 — adding from the
Sept. Ezekiel 13:9;
Micah 5:12;
1 Chronicles 25:1), but also of wise men and philosophers (Diogenes Laërtius 1, 63; 73; 79; whose pointed sayings the Greeks call
ἀποφθέγματα, Cicero, off. 1, 29)"; [see
φθέγγομαι]. Accordingly, "it is used of the utterances of the Christians, and especially Peter, on that illustrious day of Pentecost after they had been fired by the Holy Spirit,
Acts 2:4,
14; and also of the disclosures made by Paul to [before] king Agrippa concerning the
ἀποκάλυψις κυρίου that had been given him,
Acts 26:25."
Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 16.
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