Strong G2079ἐσχάτως
extremely
- Transliteration
- eschatōs
- Pronunciation
- es-khat'-oce
- Morphology
- Greek Adverb
Definition
Detailed definition
ἐσχάτως
adv.,
extremely, utterly; ἐ. ἔχειν (= Lat. in extremis esse), only in late writers (cf. ἐν ἐσχάτοις εἶναι, FlJ, Ant., ix, 8, 6), to be at the point of death: Mrk.5:28.†
(AS)
adv.,
extremely, utterly; ἐ. ἔχειν (= Lat. in extremis esse), only in late writers (cf. ἐν ἐσχάτοις εἶναι, FlJ, Ant., ix, 8, 6), to be at the point of death: Mrk.5:28.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2079 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- death1
First verses
- Mark 5:23And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
Included with: ἔσχᾰτος, η, ον,
also ος, ον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 625)](probably from ἐκ, ἐξ, perhaps eĝhzκατος (compare ἐχθός) like{ἔγ-κατα}):
I of Space, as always in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], farthest, uttermost, extreme, θάλαμος ἔ. the hindmost chamber, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.9; ἔσχατοι ἄλλων)]at the end of the lines, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.434, compare 8.225)]; ἔσχατοι ἀνδρῶν, of the Aethiopians, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.23; οἰκέομεν..ἔσχατοι 6.205; ἐσχάτη τῶν οἰκεομένων ἡ Ἰνδική 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.106, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.96, etc.; τὸ ἔ. τῆς ἀγορᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.5; ὑπ᾽..ἐσχάτην στήλην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 720)]; τάξις ἐ. the farthest part of the army, [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 4: _plural_, ἔσχατα γαίης 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 731; τὰ ἔ. τῶν στρατοπέδων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.96; ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα χθονός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 956; αἱ ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα τοῦ ἄστεως οἰκίαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.95)]; ἐξ ἐσχάτων ἐς ἔσχατα ἀπικέσθαι from end to end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.100, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 1.6; παρ᾽ ἔσχατα λίμνης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 113b, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.106)]:—in various senses, uppermost, ἐ. πυρά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 900)]; lowest, deepest, ἀΐδας [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.52; ἅλς “Anthologia Graeca” 13.27 (3rd c.BC: Phalaecus Epigrammaticus))]; innermost, σάρκες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1053)]; last, hindmost, ἤλαυνε δ᾽ ἔ. [Refs ([prev. author] “El.” 734)]; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτῳ at the close of a document, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 68.54 (2nd c.BC), etc.)]
I.2 of Degree, uttermost, highest, τὸ ἔ. κορυφοῦται βασιλεῦσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.113; ἀνορέαι ἔ. [prev. author] “I.” 4(3).11; σοφία 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 59.88)]; of misfortunes, sufferings, etc., utmost, last, worst, πόνος, ἀδικία, κίνδυνοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 247b, “R.” 361a, “Grg.” 511d; ὀδύναι αἱ ἔ. [prev. author] “Prt.” 354b)]; δῆμος ἔ. extreme democracy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1296a2.)]
I.2.b substantive, τὸ ἔ., τὰ ἔ., the utmost, ἐς τὸ ἔ. κακοῦ ἀπιγμένοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.52; τετρῦσθαι ἐς τὸ ἔ. κακοῦ [prev. author] 1.22; without _Article_, ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα βαίνεις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 217 (Lyric poetry); προβᾶσ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατον θράσους [prev. author] “Ant.” 853 (Lyric poetry); ἐπ᾽ ἔ. ἐλθεῖν ἀηδίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240d, compare “R.” 361d, etc.; ὃ πάντων κακῶν ἔσχατόν ἐστι, τοῦτο πάσχει [prev. author] “Phd.” 83c; οἱ τὰ ἔ. πεποιηκότες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.2)]; ζημιοῦσθαι πᾶσι τοῖς ἐ., Latin extremis suppliciis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 297e)]; ἔσχατ᾽ ἐσχάτων κακά worst of possible evils, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 65, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 178; εἰς τὰ ἔ. ἐληλυθώς “UPZ” 60.12 (2nd c.BC))]: comparative οὔτε γὰρ τοῦ ἐσχάτου -ώτερον εἴη ἄν τι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1055a20: _superlative_ -ώτατος)] falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.49, compare 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 51; τὰ -ώτατα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ τοῦ καθ᾽ Ὅμηρον ἀγαθοῦ βασιλέως” p.320.)]
I.3 of Persons, lowest, meanest, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 8.18, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 42.5, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.43: proverbial, οὐδείς, οὐδ᾽ ὁ Μυσῶν ἔ.,)] i.e. the meanest of mankind,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (Magnes 5, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 77; in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 209b)] it seems to mean the remotest of mankind, compare πρὸς ἐσχάτην Μυσῶν variant in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“App.Prov.” 2.85 (παρὰ τοῖς ἐ. τῆς Μυσίας 15th c.AD: Apostolius Paroemiographus 8.1); similarly οὐδὲ τὸν ἔσχατον Καρῶν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.871b.)]
I.4 of Time, last, ἐς τὸ ἔ. to the end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.107, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.46)]; ἔ. πλόος, ναυτιλίαι, the end of it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.28, “N.” 3.22)]; ἐσχάτας ὑπὲρ ῥίζας over the last scion of the race, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 599 (Lyric poetry))]; ἔ. Ἑλλήνων, Ῥωμαίων, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 1, “Brut.” 44: _neuter_ ἔσχατον,)] as adverb, for the last time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1550)]; finally, best of all, [NT (NT.1Cor.15.8)]; at the latest, ἔ. ἐν τρισὶ μησίν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 1219.11 (Gambreion, 3rd c.BC),compare “Inscription Prien.” 4.45 (4th c.BC))]; εἰς τὴν ἐσχάτην at the last, [LXX (LXX.Eccl.1.11)]; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτῳ[LXX (LXX.2Ki.24.25, +others:)] substantive ἐσχάτη, ἡ, end, οὐχ ἕξεις ἐ. καλήν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Astrampsychus Onirocriticus “Oracula” 21.4, compare 40.3.)]
I.5 in the Logic of [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, τὰ ἔ.)] are the last or lowest species, [Refs (“Metaphorical” 1059b26, or)]individuals, [Refs ([prev. work]998b16,compare “Anthologia Graeca” 0.96b12, +others; τὸ ἔ. ἄτομον “Metaphorical” 1058b10.)]
I.5.b ὁ ἔ. ὅρος the minor term of a syllogism, [Refs (“EN” 1147b14.)]
I.5.c last step in geometrical analysis or ultimate condition of action, τὸ ἔ. ἀρχὴ τῆς πράξεως [Refs (“de An.” 433a16.)]
II adverb -τως to the uttermost, exceedingly, πῦρ ἐ. καίει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τέχνης” 8; ἐ. διαμάχεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 613a11; ἐ. φιλοπόλεμος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.1; φοβοῦμαί σ᾽ ἐ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 912, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.31U.)]
II.b -τως διακεῖσθαι to be at the last extremity, [NT+2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.24.2, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 18.48; ἔχειν NT.Mark.5.23; ἀπορεῖν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ οἰκονομίας” p.72J.)]
II.2 so ἐς τὸ ἔ.,=ἐσχάτως, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.229; εἰς τὰ ἔ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.33; εἰς τὰ ἔ. μάλα [prev. author] “Lac.” 1.2; τὸ ἔ.)]finally, in the end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473c)]; but, τὸ ἔ. what is worst of all, [Refs ([prev. work] 508d.)]
also ος, ον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 625)](probably from ἐκ, ἐξ, perhaps eĝhzκατος (compare ἐχθός) like{ἔγ-κατα}):
I of Space, as always in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], farthest, uttermost, extreme, θάλαμος ἔ. the hindmost chamber, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.9; ἔσχατοι ἄλλων)]at the end of the lines, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.434, compare 8.225)]; ἔσχατοι ἀνδρῶν, of the Aethiopians, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.23; οἰκέομεν..ἔσχατοι 6.205; ἐσχάτη τῶν οἰκεομένων ἡ Ἰνδική 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.106, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.96, etc.; τὸ ἔ. τῆς ἀγορᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.5; ὑπ᾽..ἐσχάτην στήλην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 720)]; τάξις ἐ. the farthest part of the army, [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 4: _plural_, ἔσχατα γαίης 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 731; τὰ ἔ. τῶν στρατοπέδων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.96; ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα χθονός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 956; αἱ ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα τοῦ ἄστεως οἰκίαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.95)]; ἐξ ἐσχάτων ἐς ἔσχατα ἀπικέσθαι from end to end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.100, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 1.6; παρ᾽ ἔσχατα λίμνης 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 113b, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.106)]:—in various senses, uppermost, ἐ. πυρά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 900)]; lowest, deepest, ἀΐδας [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.52; ἅλς “Anthologia Graeca” 13.27 (3rd c.BC: Phalaecus Epigrammaticus))]; innermost, σάρκες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1053)]; last, hindmost, ἤλαυνε δ᾽ ἔ. [Refs ([prev. author] “El.” 734)]; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτῳ at the close of a document, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 68.54 (2nd c.BC), etc.)]
I.2 of Degree, uttermost, highest, τὸ ἔ. κορυφοῦται βασιλεῦσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.113; ἀνορέαι ἔ. [prev. author] “I.” 4(3).11; σοφία 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 59.88)]; of misfortunes, sufferings, etc., utmost, last, worst, πόνος, ἀδικία, κίνδυνοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 247b, “R.” 361a, “Grg.” 511d; ὀδύναι αἱ ἔ. [prev. author] “Prt.” 354b)]; δῆμος ἔ. extreme democracy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1296a2.)]
I.2.b substantive, τὸ ἔ., τὰ ἔ., the utmost, ἐς τὸ ἔ. κακοῦ ἀπιγμένοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.52; τετρῦσθαι ἐς τὸ ἔ. κακοῦ [prev. author] 1.22; without _Article_, ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατα βαίνεις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 217 (Lyric poetry); προβᾶσ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατον θράσους [prev. author] “Ant.” 853 (Lyric poetry); ἐπ᾽ ἔ. ἐλθεῖν ἀηδίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240d, compare “R.” 361d, etc.; ὃ πάντων κακῶν ἔσχατόν ἐστι, τοῦτο πάσχει [prev. author] “Phd.” 83c; οἱ τὰ ἔ. πεποιηκότες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.2)]; ζημιοῦσθαι πᾶσι τοῖς ἐ., Latin extremis suppliciis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 297e)]; ἔσχατ᾽ ἐσχάτων κακά worst of possible evils, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 65, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 178; εἰς τὰ ἔ. ἐληλυθώς “UPZ” 60.12 (2nd c.BC))]: comparative οὔτε γὰρ τοῦ ἐσχάτου -ώτερον εἴη ἄν τι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1055a20: _superlative_ -ώτατος)] falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.49, compare 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 51; τὰ -ώτατα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ τοῦ καθ᾽ Ὅμηρον ἀγαθοῦ βασιλέως” p.320.)]
I.3 of Persons, lowest, meanest, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 8.18, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 42.5, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.43: proverbial, οὐδείς, οὐδ᾽ ὁ Μυσῶν ἔ.,)] i.e. the meanest of mankind,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (Magnes 5, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 77; in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 209b)] it seems to mean the remotest of mankind, compare πρὸς ἐσχάτην Μυσῶν variant in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“App.Prov.” 2.85 (παρὰ τοῖς ἐ. τῆς Μυσίας 15th c.AD: Apostolius Paroemiographus 8.1); similarly οὐδὲ τὸν ἔσχατον Καρῶν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.871b.)]
I.4 of Time, last, ἐς τὸ ἔ. to the end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.107, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.46)]; ἔ. πλόος, ναυτιλίαι, the end of it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.28, “N.” 3.22)]; ἐσχάτας ὑπὲρ ῥίζας over the last scion of the race, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 599 (Lyric poetry))]; ἔ. Ἑλλήνων, Ῥωμαίων, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 1, “Brut.” 44: _neuter_ ἔσχατον,)] as adverb, for the last time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1550)]; finally, best of all, [NT (NT.1Cor.15.8)]; at the latest, ἔ. ἐν τρισὶ μησίν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 1219.11 (Gambreion, 3rd c.BC),compare “Inscription Prien.” 4.45 (4th c.BC))]; εἰς τὴν ἐσχάτην at the last, [LXX (LXX.Eccl.1.11)]; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτῳ[LXX (LXX.2Ki.24.25, +others:)] substantive ἐσχάτη, ἡ, end, οὐχ ἕξεις ἐ. καλήν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Astrampsychus Onirocriticus “Oracula” 21.4, compare 40.3.)]
I.5 in the Logic of [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, τὰ ἔ.)] are the last or lowest species, [Refs (“Metaphorical” 1059b26, or)]individuals, [Refs ([prev. work]998b16,compare “Anthologia Graeca” 0.96b12, +others; τὸ ἔ. ἄτομον “Metaphorical” 1058b10.)]
I.5.b ὁ ἔ. ὅρος the minor term of a syllogism, [Refs (“EN” 1147b14.)]
I.5.c last step in geometrical analysis or ultimate condition of action, τὸ ἔ. ἀρχὴ τῆς πράξεως [Refs (“de An.” 433a16.)]
II adverb -τως to the uttermost, exceedingly, πῦρ ἐ. καίει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τέχνης” 8; ἐ. διαμάχεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 613a11; ἐ. φιλοπόλεμος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.1; φοβοῦμαί σ᾽ ἐ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 912, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.31U.)]
II.b -τως διακεῖσθαι to be at the last extremity, [NT+2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.24.2, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 18.48; ἔχειν NT.Mark.5.23; ἀπορεῖν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ οἰκονομίας” p.72J.)]
II.2 so ἐς τὸ ἔ.,=ἐσχάτως, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.229; εἰς τὰ ἔ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.33; εἰς τὰ ἔ. μάλα [prev. author] “Lac.” 1.2; τὸ ἔ.)]finally, in the end, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473c)]; but, τὸ ἔ. what is worst of all, [Refs ([prev. work] 508d.)]