1634. ekpsuchó

Strong's Lexicon

ekpsuchó: To expire, to breathe one's last, to die.

Original Word: ἐκψυχώ
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ekpsuchó
Pronunciation: ek-psoo-kho'
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-psoo'-kho)
Definition: To expire, to breathe one's last, to die.
Meaning: I breathe my last, die, expire.

Word Origin: From the Greek preposition "ἐκ" (ek, meaning "out of") and "ψυχώ" (psucho, meaning "to breathe" or "to cool").

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: The Hebrew equivalent often used in similar contexts is "גָּוַע" (gava, Strong's H1478), which means to expire or perish.

Usage: The verb "ekpsuchó" is used in the New Testament to describe the act of dying or expiring. It conveys the moment when life departs from the body, emphasizing the finality of death. This term is often used in contexts where the physical cessation of life is highlighted, particularly in narrative accounts of death.

Cultural and Historical Background: In the Greco-Roman world, death was often viewed with a sense of inevitability and mystery. The act of dying was sometimes described in terms of the soul departing from the body, a concept that resonates with the Greek understanding of the soul (ψυχή, psyche) as the life force. In Jewish thought, death was seen as a transition to Sheol, the abode of the dead, and was often accompanied by rituals of mourning and burial.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from ek and psuchó
Definition
to expire, breathe one's last
NASB Translation
breathed her last (1), breathed his last (1), died (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 1634: ἐκψύχω

ἐκψύχω: 1 aorist ἐξεψυξα; to expire, to breathe out one's life (see ἐκπνέω): Acts 5:5, 10; Acts 12:23. (Hippocrates (), Jamblichus.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

give up the ghost.

From ek and psucho; to expire -- give (yield) up the ghost.

see GREEK ek

see GREEK psucho

Forms and Transliterations

εκψύξει εκψυχούσα εξέψυξε εξεψυξεν εξέψυξεν ἐξέψυξεν exepsuxen exepsyxen exépsyxen

Englishman's Concordance

Acts 5:5 V-AIA-3S
GRK: τούτους πεσὼν ἐξέψυξεν καὶ ἐγένετο
NAS: fell down and breathed his last; and great
KJV: fell down, and gave up the ghost: and
INT: these having fallen down breathed his last And came

Acts 5:10 V-AIA-3S
GRK: αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξέψυξεν εἰσελθόντες δὲ
NAS: at his feet and breathed her last, and the young men
KJV: and yielded up the ghost: and
INT: of him and breathed her last having come in moreover

Acts 12:23 V-AIA-3S
GRK: γενόμενος σκωληκόβρωτος ἐξέψυξεν
NAS: and he was eaten by worms and died.
KJV: eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
INT: having been eaten by worms he breathed his last

Strong's Greek 1634
3 Occurrences

ἐξέψυξεν — 3 Occ.