ΛΗΞΗΤΕ, ληξητε
LĒXĒTE, lēxēte
Sounds Like: LAY-ksee-teh
Translations: cease, stop, desist, give up
From the root: ΛΗΓΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning 'to cease', 'to stop', or 'to desist'. It is often used to command someone to stop an action or to indicate that an action has come to an end. It can be used in various contexts, from stopping a physical activity to ceasing a discussion or a state of being.
Inflection: Second Person, Plural, Aorist, Active, Imperative
Strong’s number: G3006 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:56
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΗΓΩ.
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.
- ἘΛΗΓΕ — was ceasing, used to cease, stopped, was ending, was coming to an end
- ἘΛΗΓΕΝ — ceased, stopped, ended, finished
- ἘΛΗΞΕΝ — ceased, ended, stopped, finished
- ΕΛΗΓΕ — he was ceasing, she was ceasing, it was ceasing, he was stopping, she was stopping, it was stopping, he was ending, she was ending, it was ending
- ΕΛΗΓΕΝ — he was ceasing, he was stopping, it was ceasing, it was stopping, he was ending, it was ending
- ΕΛΗΞΕΝ — it ended, he ended, she ended, it ceased, he ceased, she ceased, it stopped, he stopped, she stopped
- ΛΗΓΕΙ — he ceases, she ceases, it ceases, he stops, she stops, it stops, he ends, she ends, it ends
- ΛΗΓΕΙΝ — to cease, to stop, to end, to leave off
- ΛΗΓΟΝΤΙ — to cease, to stop, to end, to finish, to leave off, to abate
- ΛΗΓΟΝΤΟΣ — ending, ceasing, stopping, finishing, of ending, of ceasing, of stopping, of finishing
- ΛΗΓΟΝΤΩΝ — ceasing, stopping, ending, of those ceasing, of those stopping, of those ending
- ΛΗΓΟΥΣΗΣ — of ending, of ceasing, of stopping, of finishing, of concluding
- ΛΗΓΩ — to cease, to stop, to come to an end, to leave off, to desist
- ΛΗΞΑΝΤΟΣ — having ceased, having stopped, having ended, when it ceased, when it stopped, when it ended
- ΛΗΞΕΙΝ — to cease, to stop, to end, to finish
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