ἘΚΤΗΚΟΥΣΑΝ, ἐκτηκουσαν
EKTĒKOUSAN, ektēkousan
Sounds Like: ek-TAY-koo-san
Translations: wasting away, melting away, pining away
From the root: ΕΚΤΗΚΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from 'ἐκ' (out of, from) and 'τήκω' (to melt, to cause to waste away). It describes a process of gradual decay, dissolution, or wasting away, often due to disease or distress. It can be used to describe something that is literally melting or dissolving, or metaphorically, someone who is pining away or wasting away from illness or sorrow.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine, Present, Active, Participle
Strong’s number: G1638 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Leviticus — 26:16
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΚΤΗΚΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΞΕΤΗΚΟΜΗΝ — I was consumed, I was wasted away, I was pining away, I was melting away
- ἘΞΕΤΗΞΑΣ — you melted away, you consumed, you wasted away
- ΕΚΤΗΚΕΙ — wastes away, melts away, consumes, dissolves
- ΕΚΤΗΚΙ — to melt away, to waste away, to pine away, to consume, to cause to waste away
- ΕΞΕΤΗΚΟΜΗΝ — I melted away, I wasted away, I pined away, I was consumed, I was dissolved
- ΕΞΕΤΗΞΑ — I melted, I wasted away, I consumed, I dissolved, I perished
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