διαχειρίζω: 1 aorist middle διεχειρισαμην; "to move by the use of the hands, take in hand, manage, administer, govern (from (Andocides (), Lysias), Xenophon, and Plato down). Middle to lay hands on, slay, kill (with one's own hand): τινα (Polybius 8, 23, 8; Diodorus 18, 46; Josephus, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Herodian), Act_5:30; Act_26:21. STRONGS NT 1315a: διαχλευάζωδιαχλευάζω; to deride, scoff, mock (deridere i. e.ridendo exagitare Winer's): Act_2:13 G L T Tr WH. (Plato, Ax., p. 364 b.; Demosthenes, p. 1221, 26 (adverb Polycl. 49); Aeschines dial. 3, 2; Polybius 17, 4, 4; others; ecclesiastical writings) Cf. Winer's De verb. comp. etc, Part v., p. 17.

διαχειρίζω diacheirizō 2x pr. to have in the hands, to manage; mid. later, to kill, Act_5:30 ; Act_26:21 διαχλευάζω diachleuazō 1x to jeer outright, deride, Act_2:13

* δια -χειρίζω ( < χείρ ), to have in hand, conduct, manage . Mid . (a) = act. ; (b) in late writers ( Polyb ., FlJ , al. ), to lay hands on, kill: c . acc , Act_5:30 ; Act_26:21 .†

διαχειρίζω (~διαχειρίζομαι ) [page 158] For this word in its original sense of have in hand, administer, see P Tebt I. 112 introd. (B.C. 112) ἀφ᾽ων ( sc. 4885 dr.) προφέρεται Ἑρμίας διαχειρίσθαι ( l. διακεχειρίσθαι ) ἐπὶ τῆι τρα (πέζηι ) χ̄ , and from the inscrr. OGIS 218 .74 (iii/B.C.) ὅσ᾽αν διαχειρίσηι χ [ρή ]ματα , Michel 976 .18 (B.C. 300) ὅσοι τι τῶν κοινῶν διεχείρισαν , ib. 977 .8 (B.C. 298 7) τὰ κοινὰ καλῶς καὶ δικαίως διεχείρισεν . For the derived sense of kill, slay in Act_5:30 ; Act_26:21 , cf. the medical usage with reference to surgical operations, in Hobart, p. 202.

δια-χειρίζω (χείρ), to have in hand, conduct, manage. Mid. __(a) = act.; __(b) in late writers (Polyb., FlJ, al.), to lay hands on, kill: with accusative, Act.5:30 26:21.† (AS)