STRONGS G831:
αὐθεντέω,
-ῶ; (a Biblical and ecclesiastical word; from
αὐθέντης contracted from
αὐτοέντης, and this from
αὐτός and
ἔντεα arms [others,
ἕντης, cf. Hesychius
συνέντης·
συνεργός; cf.
Lobeck, Technol., p. 121]; hence
a. according to earlier usage,
one who with his own hand kills either others or himself.
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. Winers Grammar, § 2, 1 c.]);
to govern one,
exercise dominion over one:
τινός,
1 Timothy 2:12.
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