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to vote by stretching out the hand, to appoint Original Word: χειροτονέωTransliteration: cheirotoneó Phonetic Spelling: (khi-rot-on-eh'-o) Short Definition: choose
from cheir and teinó (to stretch) Definition to vote by stretching out the hand, to appoint NASB Word Usage appointed (2). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
From a comparative of cheir and teino (to stretch); to be a hand-reacher or voter (by raising the hand), i.e. (generally) to select or appoint -- choose, ordain. see GREEK cheir χειροτονηθεὶς (cheirotonētheis) − 1 Occurrence χειροτονήσαντες (cheirotonēsantes) − 1 Occurrence
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