King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G3133
Transliteration: marainō
Phonetic Spelling: (mar-ah'-ee-no)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to quench, waste away
Meaning: to quench, waste away
μαραίνω: 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)).
Word 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)).