ἘΞΕΤΗΚΟΜΗΝ, ἐξετηκομην
EXETĒKOMĒN, exetēkomēn
Sounds Like: eks-eh-TAY-koh-meen
Translations: I was consumed, I was wasted away, I was pining away, I was melting away
From the root: ΕΚΤΗΚΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from the preposition ἐκ (ek), meaning 'out of' or 'from,' and the verb τήκω (tēkō), meaning 'to melt' or 'to waste away.' Therefore, ἐκτήκω means 'to melt away completely,' 'to waste away,' or 'to be consumed.' The form ἘΞΕΤΗΚΟΜΗΝ specifically indicates a past action where the subject was in a state of being consumed or wasting away, often implying a deep emotional or physical decline.
Inflection: First Person, Singular, Indicative, Imperfect, Middle/Passive
Strong’s number: G1638 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
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.
- ἘΚΤΗΚΟΥΣΑΝ — wasting away, melting away, pining 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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