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Lexicon :: Strong's G1590 - eklyō

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ἐκλύω
Transliteration
eklyō (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-loo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἐκλύω eklýō, ek-loo'-o; from G1537 and G3089; to relax (literally or figuratively):—faint.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G1590 in the following manner: faint (5x), faint (with G2258) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G1590 in the following manner: faint (5x), faint (with G2258) (1x).

  1. to loose, unloose, to set free

  2. to dissolve, metaph., to weaken, relax, exhaust

    1. to have one's strength relaxed, to be enfeebled through exhaustion, to grow weak, grow weary, be tired out

    2. to despond, become faint hearted

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐκλύω eklýō, ek-loo'-o; from G1537 and G3089; to relax (literally or figuratively):—faint.
STRONGS G1590:
ἐκλύω: [passive, present ἐκλύομαι]; perfect participle ἐκλελυμένος; 1 aorist ἐξελύθην; 1 future ἐκλυθήσομαι; often in Greek writings from [Homer], Aeschylus down;
1. to loose, unloose (cf. German auslösen), to set free: τινά τινος and ἔκ τινος.
2. to dissolve; metaphorically, to weaken, relax, exhaust (Sept. Joshua 10:6; Jeremiah 45:4 (Jer. 38:4); Aristotle, h. an. 9, 1 at the end [p. 610a, 27]; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 11, 3; 13, 8, 1). Commonly in the passive
a. to have one's strength relaxed, to be enfeebled through exhaustion, to grow weak, grow weary, be tired out, (often so in Greek writings): of the body, Matthew 9:36 Rec.; Matt 15:32; Mark 8:3; thus for עָיֵף, 1 Samuel 14:28; 2 Samuel 17:29; for רָפָה, 2 Samuel 4:1 etc.; of the mind, Galatians 6:9 (μὴ ἐκλυόμενοι if we faint not, namely, in well-doing). Cf. Grimm on 1 Macc. 3:17.
b. to despond, become faint-hearted: Hebrews 12:5, (Deuteronomy 20:3; Proverbs 3:11); with ταῖς ψυχαῖς added, Hebrews 12:3; τοῖς σώμασι, ταῖς ψυχαῖς, Polybius 20, 4, 7; τῇ ψυχῇ, 29, 6, 14; 40, 12, 7; cf. Grimm on 1 Macc. 9:8; 2 Macc. 3:24.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
20:3
Joshua
10:6
1 Samuel
14:28
2 Samuel
4:1; 17:29
Proverbs
3:11
Jeremiah
38:4; 45:4
Matthew
9:36; 15:32
Mark
8:3
Galatians
6:9
Hebrews
12:3; 12:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1590 matches the Greek ἐκλύω (eklyō),
which occurs 34 times in 34 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 - And thou shalt live by thy sword, and shalt serve thy brother; and there shall be a time when thou shalt break and loosen his yoke from off thy neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:24 - But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; thence is he that strengthened Israel from the God of thy father;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - Hear, O Israel; ye are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint, fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6 - And the inhabitants of Gabaon sent to Joshua into the camp to Galgala, saying, Slack not thy hands from thy servants: come up quickly to us, and help us, and rescue us; for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered together against us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:3 - And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, How long will ye be slack to inherit the land, which the Lord our God has given you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:15 - And Gedeon came to the princes of Socchoth, and said, Behold Zebee and Salmana, about whom ye reproached me, saying, Are the hands of Zebee and Salmana now in thy hand, that we should give bread to thy men that are faint?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:28 - And one of the people answered and said, Thy father solemnly adjured the people, saying, Cursed is the man who shall eat bread to-day. And the people were very faint,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:21 - And David comes to the two hundred men who were left behind that they should not follow after David, and he had caused them to remain [fn]by the brook of Bosor; and they came forth to meet David, and to meet his people with him: and David drew near to the people, and they asked him how he did.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:1 - And Jebosthe the son of Saul heard that Abenner the son of Ner had died in Chebron; and his hands were paralysed, and all the men of Israel grew faint.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - And the king said to Siba, What meanest thou by these? and Siba said, The asses are for the household of the king to sit upon, and the loaves and the dates are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for them that are faint in the wilderness to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:14 - And the king, and all the people with him, came away and refreshed themselves there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:2 - and I will come upon him when he is weary and weak-handed, and I will strike him with terror; and all the people with him shall flee, and I will smite the king only of all.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29 - and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheeses of kine: and they brought them to David and to his people with him to eat; for one said, The people is faint and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:11 - And it was told David what Respha the daughter of Aia the concubine of Saul had done, [[fn]and they were faint, and Dan the son of Joa of the offspring of the giants overtook them.]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:15 - And there was yet war between the Philistines and Israel: and David went down and his servants with him, and they fought with the Philistines, and David went.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:43 - (LXX 21:43) And the king of Israel departed confounded and discouraged, and came to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:7 - But be ye strong, and let not your hands be weakened: for there is a reward for your work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:4 - And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Juda, and hindered them in building,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:9 - For all were trying to alarm us, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from this work, and it shall not be done. Now therefore I have strengthened my hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:25 - For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:11 - [fn]My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 - My son, do what I command thee, and deliver thyself; for on thy friend's account thou art come into the power of evil men: faint not, but stir up even thy friend for whom thou art become surety.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:7 - Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:9 - Faint ye, and be amazed, and be overpowered, not with strong drink nor with wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:2 - who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led away captive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:20 - Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:31 - For I have heard thy groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, saying, Woe is me! for my soul faints because of the slain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:5 - Thy feet run, and they cause thee to faint; how wilt thou prepare to ride upon horses? and thou hast been confident in the land of thy peace? how wilt thou do in the roaring of Jordan?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:4 - (LXX 45:4) And they said to the king, Let that man, we pray thee, be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 - (LXX 30:30) Damascus is utterly weakened, she is put to flight; trembling has seized upon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 - Lamed. They said to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? while they fainted like wounded men in the streets of the city, while their souls were poured out into their mother's bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 - Koph. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of thy watch: pour out thy heart as water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thine infants, who faint for hunger at the top of all the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:17 - All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him.
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