Quick Definition
διήγησις, εως, ἡ n.f. a narrative
Strong's Definition
a recital
Derivation: from G1334 (διηγέομαι);
KJV Usage: declaration
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -εως | ἄγω
33.11 · Communication · Discourse Types
account, report, narration a discourse consisting of an orderly exposition or narration In a number of languages it may be necessary to represent the meaning of διήγησις by qualifying the type of writing, for example, ‘many have undertaken to write carefully about what has taken place among us.’ Other equivalent expressions might be ‘to write in detail.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
δι-ήγησις, -ews, 7, (διηγέομαι), a narration, narrative : Lk. i. 1; used of the Gospel narratives also in Euseb. h. e. 3, 24, 7; 3,39, 12; ef. Grimmin the Jahrbb. f. deutsche Theol. 1871, p. 36. (Plat., Aristot., Polyb.; Sir. vi. 35 (34); ix. 15, ete.; 2 Mace. ii. 32; vi. 17.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
διήγησις diēgēsis 1x
a narration, relation, history, Lk. 1:1*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
δι-ήγησις, -εως, ἡ
(< διηγέομαι), [in LXX: Jg 7:15 מִסְפָּר Hb 2:6 (חִידָה), freq. in (Si 6:35, al.), II Mac 2:32 6:17 ;]
a narrative: Lk 1:1 (cf. Milligan, NTD, 130).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
διήγησις is used fey in the letter of Aristeas to Polycrates (1, 8, 322) to describe the ‘‘ narrative’ he has to unfold—one thinks of the first and last lines of Sorde//o. The noun occurs twice in PSI 1. ὃς (iii/A.D.), from a rhetorical treatise, defining what was technically known as ἢ χρεία : see above 5.7, ἀπομνημόνευμα. The χρεία is to be ‘concise’ :-- Διὰ τί σύντομον; ὅτι πολλάκις ἐκταθὲν ἢ διήγησις γίνεται ἢ ἄλλο τι. A. therefore implies some fullness of narrative, which suits the use of the word in the Preface of Lk. MGr Keeps the -μα πουη--διήγημα ‘“‘narrative’’ with dimin.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
διήγησις (diēgēsis) — narrative. διήγ-ησις, εως, ἡ, narration, narrative, [NT+5th c.BC+]; in a speech, statement of the case, [Refs 4th c.BC+]