Lexicon ekleipó: to leave out, leave off, by impl. to cease Original Word: ἐκλείπωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ekleipó Phonetic Spelling: (ek-li'-po) Short Definition: I fail utterly, cease, die Definition: I fail, die out, come to an end, am defunct. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ek and leipóDefinitionto leave out, leave off, by impl. to cease NASB Translationcome to an end (1), fail (1), fails (1), obscured (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1587: ἐκλείπωἐκλείπω; future ἐκλείψω; 2 aorist ἐξέλιπον; 1. transitive, a. to leave out, omit, pass by. b. to leave, quit (a place): τό ζῆν, τόν βίον, to die, 2 Macc. 10:13; 3Macc. 2:23; Sophocles Electr. 1131; Polybius 2, 41, 2, others; Dionysius Halicarnassus 1, 24; Luc. Macrobius, 12; Alciphron 3, 28. 2. intransitive, to fail; i. e. to leave off, cease, stop: τά ἔτη, Hebrews 1:12 from Psalm 101: (cii.) 28 (where for תָּמַם); ἡ πίστις, Luke 22:32; riches, according to the reading ἐκλίπῃ (L text T Tr WH), Luke 16:9 (often so in Greek writings, and the Sept. as Jeremiah 7:28; Jeremiah 28:30 ()). as often in classic Greek from Thucydides down, it is used of the failing or eclipse of the light of the sun and the moon: τοῦ ἡλίου ἐκλιπόντος (WH ἐκλειποντος), the sun having failed (or failing), Luke 23:45 Tdf.; on this (without doubt the true) reading (see especially WHs Appendix, at the passage, and) cf., besides Tdf.s note, Keim, iii. 440 (English translation, 6:173) (Sir. 17:31 (26)). to expire, die; so according to R G L marginal reading ἐκλίπητε in Luke 16:9 (Tobit 14:11; Wis. 5:13; the Sept. for גָּוַע , Genesis 25:8, etc.; Psalm 103:29 (); Lamentations 1:19; for מוּת, Jeremiah 49:17 (), 22. Plato, legg. 6, 759 e.; 9,856 e.; Xenophon, Cyril
Strong's fail. From ek and leipo; to omit, i.e. (by implication) cease (die) -- fail. see GREEK ek see GREEK leipo |
