Strong G5080τήκω
to melt
- Transliteration
- tēkō
- Pronunciation
- tay'-ko
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Apparently a primary verb; to liquefy: - melt.
Detailed definition
τήκω
[in LXX for מָסַס ni., מָקַק ni., מוּג ni., etc.;]
trans.,
to melt, melt down; pass., to melt, melt away: 2Pe.3:12.†
(AS)
[in LXX for מָסַס ni., מָקַק ni., מוּג ni., etc.;]
trans.,
to melt, melt down; pass., to melt, melt away: 2Pe.3:12.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5080 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- melt1
First verses
- 2 Peter 3:12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Occurrences by book
Detailed Greek dictionary
τήκω,
[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 300.5, etc.)], Doric dialect τάκω [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 123 (Lyric poetry), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.28)]: future τήξω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.277 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus), (συν-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 398 (troch.))]; Doric dialect 2nd pers. singular ταξεῖς (κατα-) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus “Epigrammata” 6.1)]: aorist ἔτηξα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.96, (κατ-) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.206, etc.:)]perfect τέτηκα, in intransitive sense, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.176, etc.)]; Doric dialect τέτᾱκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1141 (Lyric poetry), (προσ-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 836 (Lyric poetry))]: pluperfect ἐτετήκειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.5.15:)] — middle, future τήξομαι (but in passive sense) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φυσῶν” 12)]: aorist ἐτηξάμην [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 63, 164, 350)]:—passive, future τᾰκήσομαι [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Lev.26.39, +others, “Anacreontea” 10.16, (συν-) 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.752e:)]aorist ἐτάκην [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 3, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 251b, “Ti.” 83a)]; frequently in compounds ἐξ-, ἐν-, συν-; rarely ἐτήχθην, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.57, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 61b)], once in Trag., συντηχθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1029 (Lyric poetry))]: perfect τέτηγμαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.106d, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.272 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus))]; but in early Gr. the perfect and pluperfect passive are supplied by the intransitive active perfect and pluperfect τέτηκα, ἐτετήκειν (see. above).
I active, melt, melt down (transitive), of metals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.96, etc.)]; τ. πετραίαν χιόνα A.[same place]; bring clouds down in rain, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.25)]; dissolve, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 60e, 84d, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.523, etc.)]
I.2 metaphorically, dissolve, cause to waste or pine away, μὴ θυμὸν τῆκε let it not melt or pine away, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.264)]; τίν᾽ αεὶ τάκεις ὧδ᾽ ἀκόρετον οἰμωγὰν τὸν Ἀγαμέμνον; (i.e. τί ὧδε τήκει οἰμώζουσα τὸν Ἀγ.;) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 123 (Lyric poetry); τ. βιοτάν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 141 (_anapaest meter_); σῶμα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 609c)]; τ. καὶ λείβει [τὸ θυμοειδές[Refs (] [prev. work] 411b; τ. ἧπαρ Callias Epigrammaticus “Aet.Oxy.” 2079.8)]; διαφορεῖν καὶ τ. [σάρκα] carry off and reduce superfluous flesh, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.96, compare Vict. _Attic dialect_ 1; ἡ ταχεῖα κίνησις τὴν θερμασίαν ἐπὶ πλέον αὐξάνουσα τήκει τὸ σῶμα [prev. author] 15.191; ἔρωτες τήξουσιν κραδίην “Anthologia Graeca” 5.277 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus).)]
II passive, with intransitive perfect active τέτηκα, melt, be dissolved, melt away, of snow, thaw, χιὼν τηκομένη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.207; ῥέειν ἀπὸ τηκομένης χιόνος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.22; λευκῆς τακείσης χιόνος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 3; ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν τακῇ χιών [prev. author] “fragment” 228.4; τὴν χιόνα τετηκέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.5.15)]; of metals, ἐτήκετο κασσίτερος ὥς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 862; σίδηρος.. πυρὶ κηλέῳ τήκεται [prev. work] 866)]; also τετηκότα (i.e. κρέα) sodden flesh, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 246)]; ἄλφιτα πυρὶ τ. is consumed, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.18)]; τήκεται κοιλίη, merely, is relaxed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus)]“Aër.” 7; of putrefying flesh, fall away, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 82e)]; of a corpse, κατθανὼν ἐτήκετο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 906)]; κηκὶς μηρίων ἐτήκετο[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1008; πυρὸς τετακότας σποδῷ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1141 (Lyric poetry))]; εἰς τοῦτο τετηκυῖα resolved into.., [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 85d; στοιχεῖα καυσούμενα τήκεται NT.2Pet.3.12)]; of fat, τακείσης πιμελῆς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.192, compare 18(2))].140; of food in the digestive organs, τήκεται μὲν ἡ πρότερον ῥηθεῖσα [πτισάνη], ἡ δ᾽ ἑτέρα δύστηκτός ἐστι [Refs ([prev. author] 6.784.)]
II.2 metaphorically, melt or waste away, pine, κλαίουσα τέτηκα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.176; τήκετο χρώς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.204)]; τήκετο καλὰ παρήϊα δάκρυ χεούσης[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 208; ἐν νούσῳ.. δηρὸν τηκόμενος 5.396; τ. νούσῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.99, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.66, 82, etc.)]; Ὀδυσσεὺς τήκετο was moved to tears, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.522; κλαίω, τέτηκα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 283; μὴ λίαν τάκου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 159 (Lyric poetry); ψυχὴν ἐτήκου [prev. author] “Heracl.” 645, compare “El.” 208 (Lyric poetry); ἐτάκευ βασκαίνων 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.12; τὸ κάλλος ἐτάκετο [prev. author] 2.83)]; come to naught, δόξαι.. τακόμεναι κατὰ γᾶν μινύθουσιν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 374 (Lyric poetry))]; ἐπί τινι τακείς consumed for love of.., [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 7.31 (3rd c.BC: Dioscorides Epigrammaticus), compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMeretr.” 12.1)]; βλέμμα τηκόμενον a languishing look, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 53)]. (Cf. Latin τᾱβες, O[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] pawian 'thaw', Slavonic tajati 'melt'.)
[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 300.5, etc.)], Doric dialect τάκω [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 123 (Lyric poetry), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.28)]: future τήξω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.277 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus), (συν-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 398 (troch.))]; Doric dialect 2nd pers. singular ταξεῖς (κατα-) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus “Epigrammata” 6.1)]: aorist ἔτηξα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.96, (κατ-) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.206, etc.:)]perfect τέτηκα, in intransitive sense, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.176, etc.)]; Doric dialect τέτᾱκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1141 (Lyric poetry), (προσ-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 836 (Lyric poetry))]: pluperfect ἐτετήκειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.5.15:)] — middle, future τήξομαι (but in passive sense) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φυσῶν” 12)]: aorist ἐτηξάμην [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 63, 164, 350)]:—passive, future τᾰκήσομαι [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Lev.26.39, +others, “Anacreontea” 10.16, (συν-) 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.752e:)]aorist ἐτάκην [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 3, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 251b, “Ti.” 83a)]; frequently in compounds ἐξ-, ἐν-, συν-; rarely ἐτήχθην, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.57, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 61b)], once in Trag., συντηχθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1029 (Lyric poetry))]: perfect τέτηγμαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.106d, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.272 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus))]; but in early Gr. the perfect and pluperfect passive are supplied by the intransitive active perfect and pluperfect τέτηκα, ἐτετήκειν (see. above).
I active, melt, melt down (transitive), of metals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.96, etc.)]; τ. πετραίαν χιόνα A.[same place]; bring clouds down in rain, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.25)]; dissolve, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 60e, 84d, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.523, etc.)]
I.2 metaphorically, dissolve, cause to waste or pine away, μὴ θυμὸν τῆκε let it not melt or pine away, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.264)]; τίν᾽ αεὶ τάκεις ὧδ᾽ ἀκόρετον οἰμωγὰν τὸν Ἀγαμέμνον; (i.e. τί ὧδε τήκει οἰμώζουσα τὸν Ἀγ.;) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 123 (Lyric poetry); τ. βιοτάν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 141 (_anapaest meter_); σῶμα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 609c)]; τ. καὶ λείβει [τὸ θυμοειδές[Refs (] [prev. work] 411b; τ. ἧπαρ Callias Epigrammaticus “Aet.Oxy.” 2079.8)]; διαφορεῖν καὶ τ. [σάρκα] carry off and reduce superfluous flesh, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.96, compare Vict. _Attic dialect_ 1; ἡ ταχεῖα κίνησις τὴν θερμασίαν ἐπὶ πλέον αὐξάνουσα τήκει τὸ σῶμα [prev. author] 15.191; ἔρωτες τήξουσιν κραδίην “Anthologia Graeca” 5.277 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus).)]
II passive, with intransitive perfect active τέτηκα, melt, be dissolved, melt away, of snow, thaw, χιὼν τηκομένη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.207; ῥέειν ἀπὸ τηκομένης χιόνος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.22; λευκῆς τακείσης χιόνος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 3; ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν τακῇ χιών [prev. author] “fragment” 228.4; τὴν χιόνα τετηκέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.5.15)]; of metals, ἐτήκετο κασσίτερος ὥς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 862; σίδηρος.. πυρὶ κηλέῳ τήκεται [prev. work] 866)]; also τετηκότα (i.e. κρέα) sodden flesh, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 246)]; ἄλφιτα πυρὶ τ. is consumed, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.18)]; τήκεται κοιλίη, merely, is relaxed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus)]“Aër.” 7; of putrefying flesh, fall away, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 82e)]; of a corpse, κατθανὼν ἐτήκετο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 906)]; κηκὶς μηρίων ἐτήκετο[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1008; πυρὸς τετακότας σποδῷ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1141 (Lyric poetry))]; εἰς τοῦτο τετηκυῖα resolved into.., [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 85d; στοιχεῖα καυσούμενα τήκεται NT.2Pet.3.12)]; of fat, τακείσης πιμελῆς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.192, compare 18(2))].140; of food in the digestive organs, τήκεται μὲν ἡ πρότερον ῥηθεῖσα [πτισάνη], ἡ δ᾽ ἑτέρα δύστηκτός ἐστι [Refs ([prev. author] 6.784.)]
II.2 metaphorically, melt or waste away, pine, κλαίουσα τέτηκα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.176; τήκετο χρώς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.204)]; τήκετο καλὰ παρήϊα δάκρυ χεούσης[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 208; ἐν νούσῳ.. δηρὸν τηκόμενος 5.396; τ. νούσῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.99, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.66, 82, etc.)]; Ὀδυσσεὺς τήκετο was moved to tears, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.522; κλαίω, τέτηκα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 283; μὴ λίαν τάκου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 159 (Lyric poetry); ψυχὴν ἐτήκου [prev. author] “Heracl.” 645, compare “El.” 208 (Lyric poetry); ἐτάκευ βασκαίνων 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.12; τὸ κάλλος ἐτάκετο [prev. author] 2.83)]; come to naught, δόξαι.. τακόμεναι κατὰ γᾶν μινύθουσιν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 374 (Lyric poetry))]; ἐπί τινι τακείς consumed for love of.., [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 7.31 (3rd c.BC: Dioscorides Epigrammaticus), compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMeretr.” 12.1)]; βλέμμα τηκόμενον a languishing look, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 53)]. (Cf. Latin τᾱβες, O[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] pawian 'thaw', Slavonic tajati 'melt'.)