Lexicon marainó: to quench, waste away Original Word: μαραίνωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: marainó Phonetic Spelling: (mar-ah'-ee-no) Short Definition: I die, wither Definition: pass: I die, wither (like the grass). HELPS word-Studies 3133 maraínō – properly, dry out (wither); (figuratively) fade away because depleted (consumed). 3313 /méros ("waste away because depleted") only occurs in Js 1:11. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionto quench, waste away NASB Translationfade away (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3133: μαραίνωμαραίνω: 1 future passive μαρανθήσομαι; from Homer, Iliad 9, 212; 23, 228 on; to extinguish (a flame, fire, light, etc.); to render arid, make to waste away, cause to wither; passive to wither, wilt, dry up (Wis. 2:8 of roses; Job 15:30). Trop. to waste away, consume away, perish ( νόσῳ, Euripides, Alc. 203; τῷ λιμῷ, Josephus, b. j. 6, 5, 1); equivalent to to have a miserable end: James 1:11, where the writer uses a figure suggested by what he had just said (10); ( Buttmann, 52 (46)).
Strong's fade away. Of uncertain affinity; to extinguish (as fire), i.e. (figuratively and passively) to pass away -- fade away. |
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