ἐκλύω
to loose
also: unloose, to set free fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1590 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 12:3 ἐκλυόμενοι pres pass ptcp nom pl masc For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
- Hebrews 12:5 ἐκλύου pres pass impv 2sg and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, εκλυω (eklýō) means “to loose.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 5 verses. Its uses concentrate in Hebrews (40% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 15:32. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “unloose” and “to set free”. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1590 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 40%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 40%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Faint 2×
- American Standard Version: Distressed 1×, Faint 1×, Fainting 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lose heart 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Become weary 1×, Becoming weary 1×, Giving up 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1590 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1590 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1590 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1590 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to loose, unloose, to set free
- to dissolve, metaph., to weaken, relax, exhaust
Word origin
Derived from εκ (ek) (G1537) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G1590 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐκλυόμενοι eklyómenoi | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Galatians 6:9 | 2 |
| ἐκλυθήσονται eklythḗsontai | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Mark 8:3 | 1 |
| ἐκλυθῶσιν eklythō̂sin | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 15:32 | 1 |
| ἐκλύου eklýou | Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Hebrews 12:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1590, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εκβαλλω ekbállō G1544 to cast out
- εκβασις ékbasis G1545 exit
- εκγαμιζω ekgamízō G1547 to give in marriage
- εκγαμισκω ekgamískō G1548 to give in marriage
- εκγονον ékgonon G1549 offspring
- εκδαπαναω ekdapanáō G1550 to spend
- εκδεχομαι ekdéchomai G1551 to receive
- εκδηλος ékdēlos G1552 evident
- εκδημεω ekdēméō G1553 to depart
- εκδιδωμι ekdídōmi G1554 to give out
- εκδιηγεομαι ekdiēgéomai G1555 to relate
- εκδικος ékdikos G1558 without justice
- εκδιωκω ekdiṓkō G1559 to banish
- εκδοτος ékdotos G1560 delivered up
- εκδυω ekdýō G1562 to put off
- εκζητεω ekzētéō G1567 to seek out
- εκθαμβος ékthambos G1569 astonished
- εκθετος ékthetos G1570 exposed
- εκκαθαιρω ekkathaírō G1571 to cleanse
- εκκαιω ekkaíō G1572 to burn
- εκκακεω ekkakéō G1573 to be exhausted
- εκκεντεω ekkentéō G1574 to pierce
- εκκλαω ekkláō G1575 to cut off
- εκκλειω ekkleíō G1576 to shut out
+88 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 114 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εκλυω appears 34 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 34 verses in 15 books.
- 34
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 34
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 27:40 ἐκλύω
- Deuteronomy 20:3 ἐκλύω
- Joshua 10:6 ἐκλύω
- 1 Samuel 14:28 ἐκλύω
- 2 Samuel 4:1 ἐκλύω
- 1 Kings 21:43 ἐκλύω
- 2 Chronicles 15:7 ἐκλύω
- Ezra 4:4 ἐκλύω
- Job 19:25 ἐκλύω
- Proverbs 3:11 ἐκλύω
- Isaiah 13:7 ἐκλύω
- Jeremiah 4:31 ἐκλύω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1590) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 27:40 ἐκλύω By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, That you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
- Genesis 49:24 ἐκλύω But his bow abode in strength, The arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
- Deuteronomy 20:3 ἐκλύω and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
- Joshua 10:6 ἐκλύω The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
- Joshua 18:3 ἐκλύω Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
- 1 Samuel 14:28 ἐκλύω Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day. The people were faint.
- 1 Samuel 30:21 ἐκλύω David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him: and when David came near to the people, he greeted them.
- 2 Samuel 4:1 ἐκλύω When [Ish-bosheth], Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
- 2 Samuel 16:2 ἐκλύω The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.
- 2 Samuel 16:14 ἐκλύω The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.
- 2 Samuel 17:2 ἐκλύω and I will come on him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people who are with him shall flee; and I will strike the king only;
- 2 Samuel 17:29 ἐκλύω and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
- 2 Samuel 21:11 ἐκλύω It was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
- 2 Samuel 21:15 ἐκλύω The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
- 1 Kings 21:43 ἐκλύω
- 2 Chronicles 15:7 ἐκλύω But be you strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.
- Ezra 4:4 ἐκλύω Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
- Ezra 16:9 ἐκλύω
- Job 19:25 ἐκλύω But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
- Proverbs 3:11 ἐκλύω My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, Neither be weary of his reproof:
- Proverbs 6:3 ἐκλύω Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, Seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.
- Isaiah 13:7 ἐκλύω Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
- Isaiah 29:9 ἐκλύω Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
- Isaiah 46:2 ἐκλύω They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
- Isaiah 51:20 ἐκλύω Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.
- Jeremiah 4:31 ἐκλύω For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.
- Jeremiah 12:5 ἐκλύω If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
- Jeremiah 30:30 ἐκλύω
- Jeremiah 45:4 ἐκλύω Thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
- Lamentations 2:12 ἐκλύω They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
- Lamentations 2:19 ἐκλύω Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
- Ezekiel 7:17 ἐκλύω All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
- Ezekiel 31:15 ἐκλύω Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers of it; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
- Daniel 8:27 ἐκλύω I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king's business: and I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1590) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
