Barnabas wanted to take John, called Mark, along with them also.
Original word: φάσκω
Transliteration: phaskó
Definition (short): asserted
Definition (full): to affirm, assert
Word Origin:
probably from the same as phémi
Definition: to affirm, assert
NASB Translation: asserted (1), asserting (1), professing (1).
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Prolongation from the same as
phemi; to assert -- affirm, profess, say.
see GREEK phemi
KJV:
And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
NASB:
The Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.
KJV:
But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
NASB:
but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.
KJV:
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
NASB:
Professing to be wise, they became fools,