Lexical Summary angareuō: to impress, compel Original Word: ἀγγαρεύωTransliteration: angareuō Phonetic Spelling: (ang-ar-yew'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to impress, compel Meaning: to impress, compel Strong's Concordance Hagar. Of foreign origin (compare 'iggra'); properly, to be a courier, i.e. (by implication) to press into public service -- compel (to go). see HEBREW 'iggra' Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 29: ἀγγαρεύωἀγγαρεύω; future ἀγγαρεύσω; 1 aorist ἠγγάρευσα; to employ a courier, despatch a mounted messenger. A word of Persian origin (used by Menander, Sicyon. 4), but adopted also into Latin (Vulg.angariare). Ἄγγαροι were public couriers (tabellarii), stationed by appointment of the king of Persia at fixed localities, with horses ready for use, in order to transmit royal messages from one to another and so convey them the more speedily to their destination. See Herodotus 8, 98 (and Rawlinson's note); Xenophon, Cyril 8, 6, 17 (9); cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus under the word אִגֶרֶת; (B. D. under the word |
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