1 Kings 22:20
And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
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Persuade
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Galatians 1:10
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
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πείθω
peíthō · pi'-tho
3 times translated as this KJV form63 total Strong's occurrences
to convince (by argument, true or false); by analogy, to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); reflexively or passively, to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty)
Strong's KJV usage: :--agree, assure, believe, have confidence, be (wax) conflent, make friend, obey, persuade, trust, yield.
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Strong's first: Matthew 28:14Strong's last: Galatians 1:10
Open full G3982 profile →סוּת
çûwth · sooth
3 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to prick, i.e. (figuratively) stimulate; by implication, to seduce
Strong's KJV usage: entice, move, persuade, provoke, remove, set on, stir up, take away.
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Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 32:11Strong's last: Isaiah 36:18
Open full H5496 profile →פָּתָה
pâthâh · paw-thaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
to open, i.e. be (causatively, make) roomy; usually figuratively (in a mental or moral sense) to be (causatively, make) simple or (in a sinister way) delude
Strong's KJV usage: allure, deceive, enlarge, entice, flatter, persuade, silly (one).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 22:20Strong's last: 1 Kings 22:22
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H5496
Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
H5496
Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
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persuade
PERSUA'DE, verb transitive [Latin persuadeo; per and suadeo, to urge or incite.]
1. To influence by argument, advice, intreaty or expostulation; to draw or incline the will to a determination by presenting motives to the mind.
I should be glad, if I could persuade him to write such another critick on any thing of mine.
Almost thou persuadest me to be a christian. Acts 26:26.
2. To convince by argument, or reasons offered; or to convince by reasons suggested by reflection or deliberation, or by evidence presented in any manner to the mind.
Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you. Hebrews 6:9.
3. To inculcate by argument or expostulation. [Little used.]
4. To treat by persuasion. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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