Dictionaries :: Acknowledge (-ment)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Acknowledge (-ment):

signifies

(a) "to know thoroughly" (epi, "intensive," ginosko, "to know");

(b) "to recognize a thing to be what it really is, to acknowledge," 1Cr 14:37 (RV, "take knowledge of"); 1Cr 16:18; 2Cr 1:13, 14.
See KNOW, KNOWLEDGE, PERCEIVE.

Note: In 1Jo 2:23, "acknowledgeth" translates the verb homologeo, "to confess," RV, "confesseth."

Acknowledge (-ment):

akin to A, "full, or thorough knowledge, discernment, recognition," is translated "acknowledging" in the AV of 2Ti 2:25; Tts 1:1; Phm 1:6 (in all three, RV, "knowledge," properly, "thorough knowledge"). In Col 2:2, AV, "acknowledgement," RV, "that they may know" (i.e., "unto the full knowledge").
See KNOWLEDGE.