ἡμιθανής
hēmithanḗs · G2253 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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half dead, nearly dead
The state of being somewhere between life and death
ExamplesLuke 10:30 Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he encountered robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.
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
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 1
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Contrasting words 1 word
- ὑγιής hygiḗs · G5199 · to be well, to be healthy, right
- ὑγιής denotes being healthy, sound, or whole, the direct lexical opposite of being half-dead or entirely exhausted; represents full health versus near-death condition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Half dead, nearly dead23.122
- In Luke 10:30, Jesus tells the parable of the good Samaritan, of a man attacked by robbers who “stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead,” using this word for a person near the point of death.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἡμιθανες (from ἠμί half, and θνῄσκω, 2 aorist ἔθανον), half dead: Lk 10:30. ((Dionysius…
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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