Word Summary
anakephalaioō: to sum up, gather up
Original Word: ἀνακεφαλαιόωTransliteration: anakephalaioō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ak-ef-al-ah'-ee-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sum up, gather up
Meaning: to sum up, gather up
Strong's Concordance
summarize.
From ana and kephalaioo (in its original sense); to sum up -- briefly comprehend, gather together in one.
see GREEK ana
see GREEK kephalaioo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 346: ἀνακεφαλαιόωἀνακεφαλαιόω,
(ῶ: (present passive
ἀνακεφαλαιοῦμαι; 1 aorist middle infinitive
ἀνακεφαλαιώσασθαι); (from
κεφαλαιόω, which see, and this from
κεφάλαιον which see);
to sum up (again), to repeat summarily and so to condense into a summary (as, the substance of a speech;
Quintilian 6.1 '
rerumrepetitioetcongregatio,
quaegraece ἀνακεφαλαίωσιςdicitur' (
ἔργον ῥητορικῆς ...
ἀνακεφαλαιώσασθαι πρός ἀνάμνησιν,
Aristotle, fragment 123, vol. v., p. 1499{a}, 33)); so in
Romans 13:9. In
Ephesians 1:10 God is said
ἀνακεφαλαιώσασθαι τά πάντα ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ, to bring together again for himself (note the middle) all things and beings (hitherto disunited by sin) into one combined state of fellowship in Christ, the universal bond (cf. Meyer or Ellicott on Ephesians, the passage cited); (Protevangelium Jacobi 13
εἰς ἐμέ ἀνεκεφαλαιώθη ἡ ἱστορία Ἀδάμ, where cf. Thilo).