ναί

naiv naiv, a particle of assertion or confirmation (akin to
nhv; cf. Donaldson, Cratylus sec. 189), from Homer down, yea, verily, truly, assuredly, even so: ; ; ; ; ; ;
naiv,
levgw
uJmi'n
ktl., ; ; ; ;
naiv,
levgei
tov
pneu'ma, ; it is responsive and confirmatory of the substance of some question or statement: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; f; (9); ; ; a repeated
naiv, most assuredly (A. V. yea, yea), expresses emphatic assertion, ;
h[tw
uJmw'n
tov
naiv
naiv, let your
naiv be
naiv, i. e. let your allegation be true, (Buttmann, 163 (142); Winer's Grammar, 59 (58));
ei\nai or
givnesqai
naiv
kaiv
ouj, to be or show oneself double-tongued, i. e. faithless, wavering, false, f;
i{na
par!
ejmoiv
tov
naiv
naiv
kaiv
tov
ouj
ouj, that with me should be found both a solemn affirmation and a most emphatic denial, i. e. that I so form my resolves as, at the dictate of pleasure or profit, not to carry them out, ibid. 17 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 460 (429));
naiv
ejn
aujtw'/
gevgonen, in him what was promised has come to pass, ;
ejpaggelivai
ejn
aujtw'/
tov
naiv namely,
gegovnasin, have been fulfilled, have been confirmed by the event, (cf. Meyer at the passage). It is a particle of appeal or entreaty, like the (English yea) (German ja): with an imperative,
naiv ...
sullambavnou
aujtai'", (where Rec. has
kaiv for
naiv);
naiv
e[rcou, Rec.; so
naiv
naiv, . (A classification of the uses of
naiv in the N. T. is given by Ellicott on ; cf. Green, `Grit. Note' on .)*