αὐθεντέω, ἀυθέντω; (a Biblical and ecclesiastical word; from αὐθέντης contracted from αὐτοέντης, and this from αὐτός and ἔντεα arms (others, ἑντης, cf. Hesychius συνεντης συνεργός; cf. Lobeck, Technol., p. 121); hence, a. according to earlier usage, one who with his own hand kills either others or himself. b. in later Greek writings one who does a thing himself the author" (τῆς πράξεως, Polybius 23, 14, 2, etc.); one who acts on his own authority, autocratic, equivalent to αὐτοκράτωρ an absolute master; cf. Lobeck ad Phryn., p. 120 (also as above; cf. Winers Grammar, § 2, 1 c.)); to govern one, exercise dominion over one: τινς, 1Ti_2:12.

αὐθεντέω authenteō 1x to have authority over, domineer, 1Ti_2:12

*† αὐθεντέω , -ῶ ( < αὐθέντης , i.e . αὐτο - ἕντης , one who acts on his own authority , in Papyri, an autocrat; cf. Wis_12:6 ; cf. -ία , 3Ma_2:29 ; -ικος is freq . in vernacular, MM , s.v. ), to govern, exercise authority over: 1Ti_2:12 .†

αὐθεντέω [page 91] The history of this word has been satisfactorily cleared up by P. Kretschmer, in Glotta iii. (1912), p. 289 ff. He shows that αὐθέντης murderer is by haplology for αὐτοθέντης from θείνω , while αὐθέντης master (as in literary MGr) is from αὐτ -ἕντης (cf. συνέντης· συνεργός in Hesychius, root sen accomplish, ἀνύω ). The astonishing sense-development described in Grimm may accordingly disappear. So likewise may his description of the verb as a bibl. and eccl. word, after the evidence (given below) that the adj. αὐθεντικός is very well established in the vernacular. Biblical which in this case means that the word occurs once in the NT ( 1Ti_2:12 ) seems intended to hint what ἅπαξ εἰρημένον in a profane writer would not convey. We may refer to Nδgeli, p. 49, for evidence which encourages us to find the verb s provenance in the popular vocabulary. The Atticist Thomas Magister, p. 18, 8, warns his pupil to use αὐτοδικεῖν because αὐθεντεῖν was vulgar (κοινότερον ) : so Moeris, p. 58 αὐτοδίκην ( l. εῖν ) Ἀττικοι , αὐθέντην ( l. εῖν ) Ἕλληνες . The use in 1Ti_2:12 comes quite naturally out of the word master, autocrat. Cf. P Leid W vi. 46 ὁ ἀρχάγγελος τῶν ὑπὸ τὸν κόσμον , αὐθέντα ἥλιε . For the adj. cf. ib. vi. 46 , P Oxy II. 260 .20 (A.D. 59), a document signed by the assistant of the strategus to give it legal sanction Θέ [ω ]ν Ὀννώφριος ὑπηρέτης ἐπηκολ [ού ]θ [η ]κα τῆι [α ]ὐ̣θεντι [κ ]ῆι χιρ [ογρ ]α (φίᾳ ), I, Theon, son of O., assistant, have checked this authentic bond (Edd.) : so ib. IV. 719 .30, .33 (A.D. 193). In BGU I. 326 ii. 23 (ii./A.D.) a scribe declares the ἀντίγραφον before him to be σύμφωνον τῇ αὐθεντικῇ διαθήκῃ : cf. Wilcken Ostr 1010 (Roman) ὁμολ [ογοῦμεν ) ἔχιν τὴν αὐθεντικήν ἀποχὴν ἀχύρ [ου ), P Hamb I. 18 ii. 6 (A.D. 222) αὐθ (εντικῶν ) ἐπιστολ (ῶν ) καὶ βιβλ (ιδίων ) ὑποκεκολ (λημένων ), P Giss I. 34 .4 (A.D. 265 6) τ̣ὰ αὐθεντικ [ά ], and P Lond 985 .18 (iv/A.D.) (= III. p. 229) ἔδ̣ο̣κα τὸ ἴσον κ̣[(αὶ ) ἔ ]χω τὴν αὐθε [ν ]τικὴν ἀποχὴν παρ᾽ ἐμα̣υτῷ . The subst. is found P Lips I. 33 ii. 6, .7, .28 (A.D. 368), BGU II. 669 .18 (Byz.) ἰδίᾳ αὐθεντίᾳ ὄργανον ἔστησεν εἰ [ς ] τὸν αὐτὸν λάκκον . For αὐθεντίζω , take in hand, see Chrest. I. ii. p. 160. The noun produces ultimately the common MGr ἀφέντης ( Effendi ) Mr. [Supplemental from 1930 edition] For αὐθεντικός cf. further P Hamb I. p. 76, n .4 .

αὐθεντέω "to have full power over", τινός NTest.

αὐθεντέω, -ῶ (αὐθέντης, i.e. αὐτο- ἕντης, one who acts on his own authority, in π., an autocrat; cf. Wis.12:6; cf. -ία, 3Ma.2:29; -ικος is frequently in vernacular, MM, see word) to govern, exercise authority over: 1Ti.2:12.† (AS)