Lexical Summary marainō: to quench, waste away Original Word: μαραίνωTransliteration: marainō Phonetic Spelling: (mar-ah'-ee-no) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to quench, waste away Meaning: to quench, waste away Strong's Concordance fade away. Of uncertain affinity; to extinguish (as fire), i.e. (figuratively and passively) to pass away -- fade away. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3133: μαραίνωμαραίνω: 1 future passive μαρανθήσομαι; from Homer, Iliad 9, 212; 23, 228 on; to extinguish (a flame, fire, light, etc.); to render arid, make to waste away, cause to wither; passive to wither, wilt, dry up (Wis. 2:8 of roses; Job 15:30). Trop. to waste away, consume away, perish (νόσῳ, Euripides, Alc. 203; τῷ λιμῷ, Josephus, b. j. 6, 5, 1); equivalent to to have a miserable end: James 1:11, where the writer uses a figure suggested by what he had just said (10); (Buttmann, 52 (46)). |
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