ἐκτήκω
melt away, waste
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐκτήκω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 26:16 ἐκτήκω then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and disease that consumes your life; and you⌃ shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.
- Job 31:16 ἐκτήκω But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.
- Psalms 38:12 ἐκτήκω O Lord, listen to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were.
- Psalms 118:139 ἐκτήκω Your zeal has quite wasted me: because my enemies have forgotten your words.
- Psalms 118:158 ἐκτήκω I saw men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not your oracles.
- Psalms 138:21 ἐκτήκω Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate you? and wasted away because of your enemies?
About this word
About this word
ἐκτήκω (ektḗkō), “melt away, waste,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 6 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
