Lexical Summary
lanthanó: To escape notice, to be hidden, to be unaware
Original Word: λανθάνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: lanthanó
Pronunciation: lan-than'-o
Phonetic Spelling: (lan-than'-o)
KJV: be hid, be ignorant of, unawares
NASB: escape notice, escaped notice, escapes notice, without knowing
Word Origin: [a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is used only as an alternate in certain tenses]
1. to lie hid
2. (adverbially, often) unwittingly
{literally or figuratively}
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
to escape notice
A prolonged form of a primary verb, which is used only as an alternate in certain tenses; to lie hid (literally or figuratively); often used adverbially, unwittingly -- be hid, be ignorant of, unawares.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom a prim. root lath-
Definitionto escape notice
NASB Translationescape...notice (2), escape notice (1), escaped notice (1), escapes...notice (1), without knowing (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2990: λανθάνωλανθάνω (lengthened form of
λήθω); 2 aorist
ἔλαθόν, (whence Latin
latere); the
Sept. several times for
נֶעְלַם, etc.; (from
Homer down);
to be hidden:
Mark 7:24;
Luke 8:47;
τινα,
to be hidden from one, Acts 26:26;
2 Peter 3:5 (on which see
θέλω, 1 under the end), 8; accusative to the well-known classic usage, joined in a finite form to a participle equivalent to
secretly, unawares, without knowing (cf.
Matthiae, § 552
β.;
Passow, under the word, ii., p. 18{b}; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, A. 2);
Winers Grammar, § 54, 4; (
Buttmann, § 144, 14)):
ἔλαθόν ξενίσαντες, have unawares entertained,
Hebrews 13:2. (Compare:
ἐκλανθάνω,
ἐπιλανθάνω (
λανθάνομαι).)
