Allege
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to place beside or to set before" (para, "beside," tithemi, "to put"), while often used in its literal sense of material things, as well as in its more common significance, "to commit, entrust," twice means "to set before one in teaching," as in putting forth a parable, Matthew 13:24,31 , RV. Once it is used of setting subjects before one's hearers by way of argument and proof, of Paul, in "opening and alleging" facts concerning Christ, Acts 17:3 . See Commend , Commit , Put , Set.
Luke 14:7 Matthew 13:24,31Say.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (v. t.) To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge.
(2): (v. t.) To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble.
(3): (v. t.) To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
(4): (v. t.) To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
a lej παρατίθημι paratı́thēmi Acts 17:3
