ENGLISH: Deny
GREEK: arnoumenoi
Strong’s #: 720
Arndt: 107
TDNT: 1:469
The word appears 31 times in the NT.
It is translated in KJV by the English word: deny 29, refuse 2.
The Greek word is parsed as a Present Middle Participle:
The Present Tense tells the reader that the action of the verb is continuous. The false teachers denied and kept on denying Jesus as sovereign and lord.
The Middle Voice suggests that they did this to benefit themselves in some fashion.
