Quick Definition
I speak allegorically
Strong's Definition
to allegorize
Derivation: from G243 (ἄλλος) and (to harangue (compare G58 (ἀγορά)));
KJV Usage: be an allegory (the Greek word itself)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀλληγορέω, (ῶ: (present passive participle ἀλληγοροὺμενος); i. e., ἄλλο μέν ἀγορεύω, ἄλλο δέ νοέω, "aliud verbis, aliud sensu ostendo (Quintilian instt. 8, 6, 44), to speak allegorically or in a figure: Gal_4:24 (Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, and grammatical writers; (cf. Meyer on Galatians, the passage cited).)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀλληγορέω allēgoreō 1x
to say what is either designed or fitted to convey a meaning other than the literal one, to allegorize; ἀλληγορούμενος , adapted to another meaning, otherwise significant, Gal_4:24
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† ἀλληγορέω , -ῶ
( <ἄλλος , ἀγορεύω ),
to speak allegorically ( Cremer , 96 ff .): Gal_4:24 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀλλαχόθεν [page 22]
P Oxy II. 237 v. 15 (A.D. 186) οὐκ ἀλλαχόθεν ἡγήσατο τὴν ἐξέτασιν ἔσεσθαι serves to support Joh_10:1 . The word is classical, though assailed by Atticists (Thayer).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀλληγορέω [Etym: ἄλλος, ἀγορεύω] "to speak so as to imply something other than what is said, to interpret allegorically", Plut. :—Pass. "to be spoken allegorically", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀλληγορέω, -ῶ
(ἄλλος, ἀγορεύω)
to speak allegorically (Cremer, 96 ff.): Gal.4:24.†
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