STRONGS G2358:
θριαμβεύω; 1 aorist participle
θριαμβεύσας; (
θρίαμβος, a hymn sung in festal processions in honor of Bacchus; among the Romans, a triumphal procession [Latin
triumphus, with which word it is thought to be allied; cf. Vanicek, p. 317]);
1. to triumph, to celebrate a triumph, (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Appendix, Plutarch, Hdian, others);
τινά, over one (as Plutarch, Thes. and Rom. comp. 4):
Colossians 2:15 (where it signifies the victory won by God over the demoniacal powers through Christ's death).
2. by a usage unknown to secular authors, with a Hiphil or cuasative force (cf. Winers Grammar, p. 23 and § 38, 1 [cf. Buttmann, 147 (129)]), with the accusative of a person,
to cause one to triumph, i. e. metaphorically, to grant one complete success,
2 Corinthians 2:14 [but others reject the causative sense; see Meyer at the passage; Bp. Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited;
Findlay in the Expositor, vol. 10 p. 403ff.; 11:78;
Waite in the 'Speaker's Com.' on 2 Co. the passage cited
p. 404f.].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's
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2 Corinthians
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2:14
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Colossians
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2:15