ἐκψύχω
ekpsýchō · G1634 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to die, death
The process of dying
ExamplesActs 5:5 And as he heard these words, Ananias collapsed and died; and great fear came over all who heard about it.
Acts 5:10 And immediately she collapsed at his feet and died; and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
Acts 12:23 And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
How it’s used In 1 role
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
- ἈνανίαςAnanias 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
- ἐκπνέω ekpnéō · G1606 · to die, to breathe out one’s last
- The target term ἐκπνέω (“to expire”) and ἐκψύχω both denote the moment of death, framed through related physiological imagery — cessation of breathing versus departure of the life-spirit — a genuine convergence on the referent of dying, expressed through different metaphorical framings.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To die, death23.99
- Used in Acts 5:5 and 5:10, of Ananias and Sapphira each breathing their last upon hearing Peter's words, and in Acts 12:23, of Herod being struck by an angel of the Lord and breathing 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 ἐξεψυξα; to expire, to breathe out one's life (see ἐκπνέω): Acts 5:5, Acts…
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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