ἐξομολογέομαι

ἐξομολογέω — exomologéō

ἐξομολογέω, ἐξομολόγω: 1 aorist ἐξωμολόγησα; middle, (present εξ( ὀμολογοῦμαι); future ἐξομολογήσομαί; (1 aorist subjunctive 3 person singular ἐξομολογήσηται, Php 2:11 R G L text Tr text WH); (ἐξ either forth from the heart, freely, or publicly, openly (cf. Winers Grammar, 102 (97))); active and deponent middle to confess, to profess;

1. to confess: τάς ἁμαρτίας, Mat 3:6; Mar 1:5; (Jas 5:16 L T Tr WH) (Josephus, Antiquities 8, 4, 6; (cf. b. j. 5, 10, 5; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 51, 3 [ET]; the Epistle of Barnabas 19, 12 [ET])); τάς πράξεις, Act 19:18; τά παραπτώματα, Jas 5:16 R G; (ἡτταν, Plutarch, Eum c. 17; τήν ἀλήθειαν ἄνευ βασάνων, id. Anton c. 59).

2. to profess i. e. to acknowledge openly and joyfully: τό ὄνομα τίνος, Rev 3:5 Rec.; followed by ὅτι, Php 2:11; with the dative of person (cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 1 f.; Buttmann, 176 (153)) to one's honor, i. e. to celebrate, give praise to (so the Sept. for לְ הודָה, Psa 29:5; Psalm 105:47; Psa 121:4, etc.; (Winer's Grammar, 32)): Rom 14:11; Rom 15:9 from Psalm 17:50 (Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 61, 3 [ET]); τίνι (the dative of person) followed by ὅτι: Mat 11:25; Luk 10:21. to profess that one will do something, to promise, agree, engage: Luk 22:6 (Lachmann omits); (in this sense the Greeks and Josephus use ὁμολογεῖν).