Lexical Summary
ekkremannumi: To hang out, to suspend
Original Word: ἐκκρεμάννυμι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ekkremannumi
Pronunciation: ek-kreh-MAN-noo-mee
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-krem'-am-ahee)
KJV: be very attentive
NASB: hanging
Word Origin: [middle voice from G1537 (ἐκ - among) and G2910 (κρεμάννυμι - hanging)]
1. to hang upon the lips of a speaker, i.e. listen closely
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
be very attentive.
Middle voice from ek and kremannumi; to hang upon the lips of a speaker, i.e. Listen closely -- be very attentive.
see GREEK ek
see GREEK kremannumi
HELPS Word-studies
1582 ekkrémamai (from 1537 /ek, "out from and to" and 2910 /kremánnymi, "to hang, hinge") – properly, out from (one's own perspective) and to (the new focus), i.e. with the outcome of being totally captivated by someone's every word; "spellbound" – hanging on to each word as a listener is "suspended in rapt attention" (used only in Lk 19:48).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
ek and
kremannumiDefinitionto hang from, hang upon (the lips of a speaker), i.e. to listen closely
NASB Translationhanging (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1582: ἐκκρέμαμαιἐκκρέμαμαι (middle of
ἐκκρεμάννυμι, cf. Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. 2:224f; (
Veitch, under the word,
κρέμαμαι);
Buttmann, 61 (53)): (imperfect
ἐξεκρεμαμην);
to hang from:
ἐξεκρέματο αὐτοῦ ἀκούων, hung upon his lips (
Vergil Aen. 4, 79),
Luke 19:48, where
T WH ἐξεκρεμετο, after manuscripts
א B, a form which
T conjectures "
avulgariusuhaudalienumfuisse;" (cf.
Buttmann, as above;
WHs Appendix, p. 168). (
Plato,
Philo,
Plutarch, others.)
