Convict
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
signifies (a) "to convict, confute, refute," usually with the suggestion of putting the convicted person to shame; see Matthew 18:15 , where more than telling the offender his fault is in view; it is used of "convicting" of sin, John 8:46; 16:8; gainsayers in regard to the faith, Titus 1:9; transgressors of the Law, James 2:9; some texts have the verb in John 8:9; (b) "to reprove," 1—Corinthians 14:24 , RV (for AV, "convince"), for the unbeliever is there viewed as being reproved for, or "convicted" of, his sinful state; so in Luke 3:19; it is used of reproving works, John 3:20; Ephesians 5:11,13; 1—Timothy 5:20; 2—Timothy 4:2; Titus 1:13; 2:15; all these speak of reproof by word of mouth. In Hebrews 12:5; Revelation 3:19 , the word is used of reproving by action. See Fault , Rebuke , Reprove.
an intensive form of No. 1, "to convict thoroughly," is used of the Lord's future "conviction" of the ungodly, Jude 1:15 .
Acts 18:28Confute.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (v. t.) To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
(2): (p.a.) Proved or found guilty; convicted.
(3): (n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
(4): (n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
(5): (v. t.) To defeat; to doom to destruction.
(6): (v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
(7): (v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
