ἐκδαπανάω
ekdapanáō · G1550 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to give oneself completely for, to do anything and everything
(A figurative extension of meaning of ἐκδαπανάω ‘to spend completely,’ not occurring in the NT) To do anything and everything to the limit of one’s capacity
Examples2 Corinthians 12:15 I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὑπέρfor+ ψυχήlife, soul 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀναλίσκω analískō · G355 · to destroy
- Greek verb meaning to consume or use up completely, often with connotations of destruction; parallels ἐκδαπανάω in expressing total expenditure or exhaustion, though ἀναλίσκω typically applies to physical consumption (burning up, destroying) while ἐκδαπανάω emphasizes the figurative exhaustion of resources or self
Contrasting words 2 words
- φείδομαι pheídomai · G5339 · to spare, to prevent trouble happening to someone, to avoid
- Lexical opposite: φείδομαι denotes abstaining or sparing (resources, action, or severity), directly contrary to ἐκδαπανάω's sense of expending wholly without restraint
- θησαυρίζω thēsaurízō · G2343 · to treasure up, to keep safe, to make even greater
- Opposite action: accumulating or storing resources rather than expending or exhausting them
In the other Testament 2 words
- כָּלָה kâlâh · H3615 · to be finished, to be completed, to come to an end
- Hebrew verb expressing the concept of exhaustion, consumption, and complete expenditure, semantically parallel to ἐκδαπανάω's figurative sense of exhausting resources or oneself
- תָּמַם tâmam · H8552 · to be finished, to be spent, to be completed
- Hebrew verb for being exhausted or consumed entirely, capturing the intensive 'wholly expend' sense of ἐκδαπανάω
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To give oneself completely for, to do anything and everything42.28
- Used in 2 Corinthians 12:15, where Paul says he will most gladly spend and be utterly spent for the sake of his readers' souls.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (future ἐκδαπανήσω); 1 future passive ἐκδαπαναθήσομαι; to exhaust by expending, to…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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