1291. διαστέλλομαι (diastelló) -- to set apart, fig. to distinguish, to charge expressly

Strong's Concordance

diastelló: to set apart, fig. to distinguish, to charge expressly

Original Word: διαστέλλομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: diastelló
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-as-tel'-lom-ahee)
Definition: to set apart, to distinguish, to charge expressly
Usage: I give a commission (instructions), order; I admonish, prohibit.

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1291 diastéllomai (from 1223 /diá, "through, thorough," which intensifies 4724 /stéllō, "send") – properly, send through (effectively divide), referring to giving an explicit command – i.e. that is unambiguously clear.

[1291 (diastéllomai) means "to command (charge) expressly"; "originally, . . . 'to put asunder'; hence, 'to distinguish,' and so of a commandment or injunction to distinguish" (as), i.e. is expressly clear" (A-S).]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from dia and stelló
Definition
to set apart, fig. to distinguish, to charge expressly
NASB Translation
command (1), gave...orders (3), gave...instruction (1), giving orders (1), ordered (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 1291: διαστέλλω

διαστέλλω: to draw asunder, divide, distinguish, dispose, order, (Plato, Polybius, Diodorus, Strabo, Plutarch; often in the Sept.); passive τό διαστελλόμενον, the injunction: Hebrews 12:20 (2 Macc. 14:28). Middle, (present διαστέλλομαι); imperfect διεστελλομην; 1 aorist διεστειλαμην; to open oneself, i. e. one's mind, to set forth distinctly, (Aristotle, Polybius); hence, in the N. T. (so Ezekiel 3:18, 19; Judith 11:12) to admonish, order, charge: τίνι, Mark 8:15; Acts 15:24; followed by (ἵνα (cf. Buttmann, 237 (204)), Matthew 16:20 R T Tr WH marginal reading; Mark 7:36; Mark 9:9; διεστείλατο πολλά, ἵνα etc. Mark 5:43.