ἀρνέομαι

ἀρνέομαι — arnéomai

Ἀρνει, ὁ, indeclinable proper name of one of the ancestors of Jesus: Luk 3:33 T WH Tr marginal reading

STRONGS NT 720: ἀρνέομαιἀρνέομαι, ἀρνοῦμαι; future ἀρνήσομαι; imperfect ἠρνουμην; 1 aorist ἠρνησαμην (rare in Attic, where generally ἠρνήθην, cf. Matth. i., p. 538 (better, Veitch, under the word)); perfect ή᾿ρνημαι; a deponent verb ((from Homer down)) signifying

1. to deny, i. e. εἰπεῖν... οὐκ (to say... not, contradict): Mar 14:70; Mat 26:70; Joh 1:20; Joh 18:25; Joh 18:27; Luk 8:45; Act 4:16; followed by ὅτι οὐ instead of simple ὅτι, in order to make the negation more strong and explicit: Mat 26:72; 1Jn 2:22; (on the same use in Greek writings cf. Kühner, ii., p. 761; (Jelf, ii. 450; Winer's Grammar, § 65, 2 β.; Buttmann, 355 (305))).

2. to deny, with an accusative of the person, in various senses:

a. ἀρνουσθαι Ἰησοῦν is used of followers of Jesus who, for fear of death or persecution, deny that Jesus is their master, and desert his cause (to disown): Mat 10:33; Luk 12:9; (Joh 13:38 L text T Tr WH); 2Ti 2:12 (ἀρνουσθαι τό ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, Rev 3:8, means the same); and on the other hand, of Jesus, denying that one is his follower: Mat 10:33; 2Ti 2:12.

b. ἀρνουσθαι God and Christ, is used of those who by cherishing and disseminating pernicious opinions and immorality are adjudged to have apostatized from God and Christ: 1Jn 2:22 (cf. 4:2; 2Jn 1:7-11); Jud 1:4; 2Pe 2:1.

c. ἀρνουσθαι ἑαυτόν, to deny himself, is used in two senses, α. to disregard his own interests: Luk 9:23 (R WH marginal reading ἀπαρν.); cf. ἀπαρνέομαι. β. to prove false to himself, act entirely unlike himself: 2Ti 2:13.

3. to deny i. e. abnegate, abjure; τί, to renounce a thing, forsake it: τήν ἀσέβειαν καί τάς ἐπιθυμίας, Tit 2:12; by act to show estrangement from a thing: τήν πίστιν, 1Ti 5:8; Rev 2:13; τήν δύναμιν τῆς εὐσεβείας, 2 Timothy 3:5. 4. not to accept, to reject, refuse, something offered: τινα, Act 3:14; Act 7:35; with an infinitive indicating the thing, Heb 11:24. (Compare: ἀπαρνέομαι.)