ἐκπνέω
ekpnéō · G1606 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to die, to breathe out one’s last
(A figurative extension of meaning of ἐκπνέω ‘to breathe out,’ not occurring in the NT) To engage in the final act of dying
ExamplesMark 15:37 But Jesus let out a loud cry, and died.
Mark 15:39 And when the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw that He died in this way, he said, “Truly this Man was the Son of God!”
Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, INTO YOUR HANDS I ENTRUST MY SPIRIT.” And having said this, He died.
How it’s used In 3 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
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- ἸησοῦςJesus 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὕτωso, thus, in this way 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἴδωto know 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
- ἐκψύχω ekpsýchō · G1634 · to die, death
- Both ἐκπνέω and ἐκψύχω (“to expire”) denote the moment of dying, through related but distinct physiological imagery: the departure of the breath versus the departure of the life-spirit.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To die, to breathe out one’s last23.103
- Used in Mark 15:37 and its parallel in Luke 23:46, of Jesus uttering a loud cry and breathing His last on the cross, and in Mark 15:39, of the centurion who saw the way He breathed His last.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἐξέπνευσα; to breathe out, breathe out one's life, breathe one's last, expire:…
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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