ἐκλείπω

ἐκλείπω — ekleípō

ἐκλείπω; future ἐκλείψω; 2 aorist ἐξέλιπον;

1. transitive,

a. to leave out, omit, pass by.

b. to leave, quit (a place): τό ζῆν, τόν βίον, to die, 2Ma 10:13; 3Ma 2:23; Sophocles Electr. 1131; Polybius 2, 41, 2, others; Dionysius Halicarnassus 1, 24; Luc. Macrobius, 12; Alciphron 3, 28.

2. intransitive, to fail; i. e. to leave off, cease, stop: τά ἔτη, Heb 1:12 from Psa 101:1-8 : (cii.) 28 (where for תָּמַם); ἡ πίστις, Luk 22:32; riches, according to the reading ἐκλίπῃ (L text T Tr WH), Luk 16:9 (often so in Greek writings, and the Sept. as Jer 7:28; Jeremiah 28:30 ). as often in classic Greek from Thucydides down, it is used of the failing or eclipse of the light of the sun and the moon: τοῦ ἡλίου ἐκλιπόντος (WH ἐκλειποντος), the sun having failed (or failing), Luk 23:45 Tdf.; on this (without doubt the true) reading (see especially WHs Appendix, at the passage, and) cf., besides Tdf.s note, Keim, iii. 440 (English translation, 6:173) (Sir 17:31 (26)). to expire, die; so according to R G L marginal reading ἐκλίπητε in Luk 16:9 (Tob 14:11; Wis 5:13; the Sept. for גָּוַע, Gen 25:8, etc.; Psalm 103:29; Lam 1:19; for מוּת, Jer 49:17, 22. Plato, legg. 6, 759 e.; 9,856 e.; Xenophon, Cyril