Word Summary
ekpneō: to breathe out, expire
Original Word: ἐκπνέωTransliteration: ekpneō
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-pneh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to breathe out, expire
Meaning: to breathe out, expire
Strong's Concordance
give up the ghost.
From ek and pneo; to expire -- give up the ghost.
see GREEK ek
see GREEK pneo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1606: ἐκπνέωἐκπνέω: 1 aorist
ἐξέπνευσα;
to breathe out, breathe out one's life, breathe one's last, expire:
Mark 15:37, 39;
Luke 23:46, and often in Greek writings, both without an object (from (
Sophocles Aj. 1026)
Euripides down), and with
βίον or
ψυχήν added (from
Aeschylus down).