Strong G1439ἐάω
to allow
- Transliteration
- eaō
- Pronunciation
- eh-ah'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Of uncertain affinity; to let be that is permit or leave alone: - commit leave let (alone) suffer. See also G1436 .
Detailed definition
ἐάω, -ῶ,
[in LXX for רפה hi., etc.;]
1. to let, permit: with accusative, with inf., with accusative and inf. (M, Pr., 205): Mat.24:43, Luk.4:41 22:51, Act.14.16; 16.7, 19:30 23.32 27:32 28:4, 1Co.10:13.
2. to let alone, leave: ἀγκύρας, Act.27:40 (cf. προσ-εάω).
† (AS)
[in LXX for רפה hi., etc.;]
1. to let, permit: with accusative, with inf., with accusative and inf. (M, Pr., 205): Mat.24:43, Luk.4:41 22:51, Act.14.16; 16.7, 19:30 23.32 27:32 28:4, 1Co.10:13.
2. to let alone, leave: ἀγκύρας, Act.27:40 (cf. προσ-εάω).
† (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1439 appears in 13 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- suffer7
- let2
- will2
- alone1
- commit1
- leave1
- suffereth1
- thou1
First verses
- Matthew 24:43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
- Luke 4:41And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
- Luke 22:51And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
- Acts 5:38And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
- Acts 14:16Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
- Acts 16:7After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
- Acts 19:30And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
- Acts 23:32On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
- Acts 27:32Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
- Acts 27:40And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
- Acts 28:4And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
- Revelation 2:20Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἐάω,
contraction ἐῶ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.428, etc.)]; Epic dialect εἰῶ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4.55; _Epic dialect_ 2 and _3rd.pers._ _sing._ ἐάᾳς, ἐάᾳ, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.137, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.414)]; infinitive ἐάαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.509:)]imperfect εἴων,-ας, -α, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.448, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.25, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.28, etc.)]; Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἔων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.2, ἔα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.517, 16.731; also ἔασκον or εἴασκον, 2.832, 5.802)], etc.: future ἐάσω [ᾱ] [Refs (18.296)], etc.: aorist εἴᾱσα (εἴᾰσεν is variant for{εἴᾱς}' in [Refs (10.299) 24.684, etc.)]; Epic dialect ἔᾱσα [Refs (11.437)]: perfect εἴᾱκα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.37, 43.78, 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 17.35:)] —passive, future ἐάσομαι in passive sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 331, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142)]: aorist εἰάθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.97)]: perfect passive εἴᾱμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.22.— 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)] never uses the augment in this Verb. [ᾰ in present and imperfect, ᾱ in future and aorist even in Ionic dialect (so probably in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 56, 57)]; forms with -ασς- occur as variants in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 8.7))]. Synizesis occurs in 3rd.pers. singular ἐᾷ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.256, in 1)] subjunctive ἐῶμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (10.344, and probably in ἐάσουσιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.233)]; also in Trag., in imperative ἔα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1451, “Ant.” 95, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 932; _indicative_ ἐῶ [prev. author] “Lys.” 734: 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus has the form ἦσεν· εἴασεν, compare ἦσαι· παῦσαι])]:—suffer, permit, with accusative person et infinitive, τούσδε δ᾽ ἔα φθινύθειν leave them alone to perish, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.346; αἴ κεν ἐᾷ με.. ζώειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.359, etc.; ἐᾶν οἰκεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.48, compare “IG” 12.1; ἐ. τοὺς Ἕλληνας αὐτονόμους [prev. work]2.17.9; ἐᾶν ἄκλαυτον, ἄταφον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 29, compare “Tr.” 1083; ἐᾶν τί τινι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.233d:)] —so in passive, Κρέοντί γε θρόνους ἐᾶσθαι should be given up, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 368.)]
b concede, allow in argument, with accusative et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 135b.)]
2 with negative, οὐκ ἐᾶν not to suffer: hence, forbid, prevent, τρεῖν μ᾽ οὐκ ἐᾷ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.256; εἴπερ γὰρ φθονέω τε καὶ οὐκ εἰῶ διαπέρσαι 4.55)]; especially of the law, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.21; δμωὰς δ᾽ οὐκ εἴας προβλωσκέμεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.25, etc.: used elliptically with ἀλλά)] following, οὐκ ἐῶν φεύγειν, ἀλλὰ [κελεύων] μένοντας ἐπικρατέειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.21)]; also, persuade or advise not to do.., [Refs ([prev. author] 1.133: an)]infinitive may frequently be supplied, οὐκ ἐάσει σε τοῦτο will not allow thee [to do] this, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 538)]; κἂν μηδεὶς ἐᾷ even if all men forbid, [Refs ([prev. author] “Aj.” 1184, compare “Ph.” 444:)] —so in passive, οὐκ ἐᾶσθαι, with infinitive, to be hindered, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1344, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.16.)]
II let alone, let be, with accusative, ἔα χόλον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.260)]; μνηστήρων μὲν ἔα βουλήν heed not the suitors' plan, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.281)]; ἐπεί με πρῶτον ἐάσας as soon as thou hast dismissed me, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.557, compare 569, 684)]; ἤ κέν μιν ἐρύσσεαι, ἦ κεν ἐάσῃς or wilt leave him alone,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (20.311, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.108, etc.; ἐάσωμεν ἕκηλον αὐτόν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 825; [πρᾶγμα] ἀκάθαρτον ἐᾶν [prev. author] “OT” 256; τὰ παθήματα.. παρεῖσ᾽ ἐάσω [prev. author] “OC” 363, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.36; ἐᾶν φιλοσοφίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 484c: with)]infinitive, ἐπὶ Σκύθας ἰέναι.. ἔασον let it alone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134)]; κλέψαι μὲν ἐάσομεν Ἕκτορα we will have done with stealing Hector, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.71; ἐᾶν περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 347c, etc.; ἐῶ γὰρ εἰ φίλον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.122: _absolutely_, ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δὴ καὶ ἔασον)] have done, let be, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.221, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 334; οὐ χρὴ μάχεσθαι πρὸς τὸ θεῖον, ἀλλ᾽ ἐᾶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 491.5)]; θεὸς τὸ μὲν δώσει, τὸ δ᾽ ἐάσει he will give one thing, the other he will let alone, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.444)]:—passive, ἡ δ᾽ οὖν ἐάσθω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 329, etc.)]
II.2 for ἐᾶν χαίρειν, see at {χαίρω} entry near the end (ἐϝάω, compare ἔβασον· ἔασον, and εὔα· ἔα, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus who also has ἔησον· ἔασον.))]
contraction ἐῶ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.428, etc.)]; Epic dialect εἰῶ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4.55; _Epic dialect_ 2 and _3rd.pers._ _sing._ ἐάᾳς, ἐάᾳ, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.137, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.414)]; infinitive ἐάαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.509:)]imperfect εἴων,-ας, -α, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.448, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.25, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.28, etc.)]; Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἔων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.2, ἔα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.517, 16.731; also ἔασκον or εἴασκον, 2.832, 5.802)], etc.: future ἐάσω [ᾱ] [Refs (18.296)], etc.: aorist εἴᾱσα (εἴᾰσεν is variant for{εἴᾱς}' in [Refs (10.299) 24.684, etc.)]; Epic dialect ἔᾱσα [Refs (11.437)]: perfect εἴᾱκα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.37, 43.78, 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 17.35:)] —passive, future ἐάσομαι in passive sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 331, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142)]: aorist εἰάθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.97)]: perfect passive εἴᾱμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.22.— 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)] never uses the augment in this Verb. [ᾰ in present and imperfect, ᾱ in future and aorist even in Ionic dialect (so probably in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 56, 57)]; forms with -ασς- occur as variants in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 8.7))]. Synizesis occurs in 3rd.pers. singular ἐᾷ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.256, in 1)] subjunctive ἐῶμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (10.344, and probably in ἐάσουσιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.233)]; also in Trag., in imperative ἔα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1451, “Ant.” 95, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 932; _indicative_ ἐῶ [prev. author] “Lys.” 734: 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus has the form ἦσεν· εἴασεν, compare ἦσαι· παῦσαι])]:—suffer, permit, with accusative person et infinitive, τούσδε δ᾽ ἔα φθινύθειν leave them alone to perish, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.346; αἴ κεν ἐᾷ με.. ζώειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.359, etc.; ἐᾶν οἰκεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.48, compare “IG” 12.1; ἐ. τοὺς Ἕλληνας αὐτονόμους [prev. work]2.17.9; ἐᾶν ἄκλαυτον, ἄταφον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 29, compare “Tr.” 1083; ἐᾶν τί τινι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.233d:)] —so in passive, Κρέοντί γε θρόνους ἐᾶσθαι should be given up, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 368.)]
b concede, allow in argument, with accusative et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 135b.)]
2 with negative, οὐκ ἐᾶν not to suffer: hence, forbid, prevent, τρεῖν μ᾽ οὐκ ἐᾷ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.256; εἴπερ γὰρ φθονέω τε καὶ οὐκ εἰῶ διαπέρσαι 4.55)]; especially of the law, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.21; δμωὰς δ᾽ οὐκ εἴας προβλωσκέμεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.25, etc.: used elliptically with ἀλλά)] following, οὐκ ἐῶν φεύγειν, ἀλλὰ [κελεύων] μένοντας ἐπικρατέειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.21)]; also, persuade or advise not to do.., [Refs ([prev. author] 1.133: an)]infinitive may frequently be supplied, οὐκ ἐάσει σε τοῦτο will not allow thee [to do] this, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 538)]; κἂν μηδεὶς ἐᾷ even if all men forbid, [Refs ([prev. author] “Aj.” 1184, compare “Ph.” 444:)] —so in passive, οὐκ ἐᾶσθαι, with infinitive, to be hindered, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1344, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.16.)]
II let alone, let be, with accusative, ἔα χόλον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.260)]; μνηστήρων μὲν ἔα βουλήν heed not the suitors' plan, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.281)]; ἐπεί με πρῶτον ἐάσας as soon as thou hast dismissed me, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.557, compare 569, 684)]; ἤ κέν μιν ἐρύσσεαι, ἦ κεν ἐάσῃς or wilt leave him alone,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (20.311, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.108, etc.; ἐάσωμεν ἕκηλον αὐτόν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 825; [πρᾶγμα] ἀκάθαρτον ἐᾶν [prev. author] “OT” 256; τὰ παθήματα.. παρεῖσ᾽ ἐάσω [prev. author] “OC” 363, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.36; ἐᾶν φιλοσοφίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 484c: with)]infinitive, ἐπὶ Σκύθας ἰέναι.. ἔασον let it alone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134)]; κλέψαι μὲν ἐάσομεν Ἕκτορα we will have done with stealing Hector, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.71; ἐᾶν περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 347c, etc.; ἐῶ γὰρ εἰ φίλον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.122: _absolutely_, ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δὴ καὶ ἔασον)] have done, let be, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.221, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 334; οὐ χρὴ μάχεσθαι πρὸς τὸ θεῖον, ἀλλ᾽ ἐᾶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 491.5)]; θεὸς τὸ μὲν δώσει, τὸ δ᾽ ἐάσει he will give one thing, the other he will let alone, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.444)]:—passive, ἡ δ᾽ οὖν ἐάσθω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 329, etc.)]
II.2 for ἐᾶν χαίρειν, see at {χαίρω} entry near the end (ἐϝάω, compare ἔβασον· ἔασον, and εὔα· ἔα, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus who also has ἔησον· ἔασον.))]