λήθη
lḗthē · G3024 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to forget, to not remember, to lose sight of, to ignore
To not recall information and thus to lose sight of its significance
Examples2 Peter 1:9 For the one who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- καθαρισμόςcleansing 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λαμβάνωto receive, to take 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To forget, to not remember, to lose sight of, to ignore29.13
- λήθη names forgetfulness. 2 Peter 1:9 states that the one lacking Christian virtues “is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins,” the λήθην naming this forgetfulness of one's own cleansing from sin.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λήθης, ἡ (λήθω to escape notice, λήθομαι to forget) (from Homer down), forgetfulness:…
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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