BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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GREEK · G1587
ekleipō — to fail
ἐκ-λείπω [in LXX for כָּלָה, כָּרַת ni., תָּמַם, etc., 47 different words in all ;] 1. trans., to leave out, pass over. 2. Intrans., to leave off, cease, fail: μαμωνᾶς, Luk.16:9; πίστις, Luk.22:32; ἔτη, Heb.1:12 (LXX); of the sun in an eclipse, Luk.23:45.† (AS)
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6004
a.mam — to darken
1) to dim, darken, grow dark 1a) (Qal) to dim, eclipse, be held dark 1b) (Hophal) to be dimmed, grow dark
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6253
amauroō — to darken
to make dim, faint , or obscure , (Xenophon Historicus); metaphorically to impair , (Euripides), etc.:—;Pass. to become dim, suffer eclipse , of the sun, (Herdotus Historicus); to disappear , (Hesiod) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7111
ekleipsis — end
1. abandonment , τῶν νεῶν (Herdotus Historicus) 2. (from intransitive) of sun or moon, an eclipse , (Thucydides) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8294
metabolē — revolt
1. a change, changing , (Pindar) 2. exchange, barter, traffic , (Thucydides) 3. (from Mid.) a transition, change , and in plural changes, vicissitudes , (Herdotus Historicus):—;with genitive change from a thing, μ. κακῶν (Euripides); rarely change to . . , μ. ἀπραγμοσύνης (Thucydides); but this is generally expressed by a preposition, ἅμα τῇ μ. ἐς Ἕλληνας their going over to the Greeks, (Herdotus Historicus); ἡ ἐναντία μ. change to the contrary, (Thucydides) 4. μ. τῆς ἡμέρης an eclipse , (Herdotus Historicus) 5. μ. πολιτείας change of government, a revolution , (Thucydides) 6. as military term, a wheeling about , (Polybius Historicus); metaphorically of a speaker, (Aeschines Orator) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Of the sun alluded to in Amos 8:9; Micah 3:6; Zech. 14:6; Joel 2:10. Eclipses were regarded as tokens of God’s anger (Joel 3:15; Job 9:7). The darkness at the crucifixion has been ascribed to an eclipse (Matt. 27:45); but on the other hand it is argued that the great intensity of darkness caused by an eclipse never lasts for more than six minutes, and this darkness lasted for three hours. Moreover, at the time of the Passover the moon was full, and therefore there could not be an eclipse of the sun, which is caused by an interposition of the moon between the sun and the earth.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
