ἐπιλείπω
epileípō · G1952 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to begin to come to the end, to fail, to run out
To begin to cease
ExamplesHebrews 11:32 And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,
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
- χρόνοςtime 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διηγέομαιto inform 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
- ὑστερέω hysteréō · G5302 · to lack, to be in need of, to be in want
- ὑστερέω expresses the notion of lacking or being insufficient, closely paralleling ἐπιλείπω's sense of failing to be adequate or sufficient for a need.
Contrasting words 1 word
- περισσεύω perisseúō · G4052 · to abound, to be in abundance, to be a lot of
- περισσεύω expresses abundance and excess, the direct lexical opposite of ἐπιλείπω's sense of insufficiency or failing to be adequate.
In the other Testament 2 words
- חָסֵר châçêr · H2637 · to lack, to be lacking, to fail
- חָסֵר (ḥāsēr) expresses deficiency or insufficiency in Hebrew, overlapping with ἐπιλείπω's sense of being insufficient or failing to meet a need.
- כָּלָה kâlâh · H3615 · to be finished, to be completed, to come to an end
- כָּלָה (kālâ) captures the sense of coming to an end or being exhausted/spent, which aligns with ἐπιλείπω's semantic domain of beginning to come to an end or running out.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To begin to come to the end, to fail, to run out13.41
- Hebrews 11:32 says of the roll call of the faithful, “time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson,” ἐπιλείπω marking the running out of available time to complete the account.
Word family 18 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : future ἐπιλειψω; to fail, not to suffice for (any purpose, for the attainment of an…
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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