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STRONGS NUMBER G1594

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Word Summary
eknēphō: to become sober (after drunkenness)
Original Word: ἐκνήφω
Transliteration: eknēphō
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-nay'-fo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to become sober (after drunkenness)
Meaning: to become sober (after drunkenness)
Strong's Concordance
to come to one's senses

From ek and nepho; (figuratively) to rouse (oneself) out of stupor -- awake.

see GREEK ek

see GREEK nepho

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1594: ἐκνήφω

ἐκνήφω: 1 aorist ἐξενηψα;

a. properly, to return to oneself from drunkenness, become sober (Genesis 9:24; (1 Samuel 25:37); Joel 1:5; (Sir. 34:2 (Sir. 31:2)); Lynceus quoted in Ath. 4, 5, p. 130 b.).

b. metaphorically, to return to soberness of mind (cf. ἀνανήφω): 1 Corinthians 15:34 (Plutarch, Demosthenes 20).



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