Lexical Summary autocheir: the very act Original Word: αὐτόχειρTransliteration: autocheir Phonetic Spelling: (ow-tokh'-ire) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: the very act Meaning: the very act Strong's Concordance with one's own hands. From autos and cheir; self-handed, i.e. Doing personally -- with... Own hands. see GREEK autos see GREEK cheir Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 849: αὐτόχειραὐτόχειρ, ἀυτοχειρος, ὁ (αὐτός and χείρ, cf. μακρόχειρ, ἀδικοχειρ), doing a thing with one's own hand: Acts 27:19. (Often in the tragedians and Attic orators.) STRONGS NT 849a: αὐχέωαὐχέω; (in present and imperfect from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, but rare in prose); properly, to lift up the neck, hence, to boast: μεγάλα αὐχεῖ, James 3:5 L T Tr WH for R G μεγάλαυχεῖ which see |