Lexical Summary
ekpneó: To breathe out, to expire
Original Word: ἐκπνέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ekpneó
Pronunciation: ek-pneh'-o
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-pneh'-o)
KJV: give up the ghost
NASB: breathed His last
Word Origin: [from G1537 (ἐκ - among) and G4154 (πνέω - blew)]
1. to expire
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
give up the ghost.
From ek and pneo; to expire -- give up the ghost.
see GREEK ek
see GREEK pneo
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
ek and
pneóDefinitionto breathe out, expire
NASB Translationbreathed His last (3).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1606: ἐκπνέωἐκπνέω: 1 aorist
ἐξέπνευσα;
to breathe out, breathe out one's life, breathe one's last, expire:
Mark 15:37, 39;
Luke 23:46, and often in Greek writings, both without an object (from (
Sophocles Aj. 1026)
Euripides down), and with
βίον or
ψυχήν added (from
Aeschylus down).