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ἐξολοθρεύω

From LSJ

Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.

Valerius Maximus, De Factis Dictisque

Middle Liddell

fut. σω
to destroy utterly, NTest.

German (Pape)

[Seite 886] ganz verheeren, zerstören, LXX., Philo.

French (Bailly abrégé)

anéantir, exterminer.
Étymologie: ἐξ, ὀλοθρεύω.

English (Strong)

from ἐκ and ὀλοθρεύω; to extirpate: destroy.

English (Thayer)

and (according to the reading best attested by the oldest manuscripts of the Sept. and received by L T Tr WH (see ὀλοθρεύω)) ἐξολεθρεύω: future passive ἐξολοθρευθήσομαι; to destroy out of its place, destroy utterly, to extirpate: ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ, Sept., and in the O. T. Apocrypha, and in Test xii. Patr.; Josephus, Antiquities 8,11, 1; 11,6, 6; hardly in native Greek writings.)

Greek Monolingual

(AM ἐξολοθρεύω)
1. προκαλώ όλεθρο, καταστρέφω τελείως
2. εξοντώνω, θανατώνω.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < εξ + ολοθρεύω (< ολεθρεύω με αφομοίωση < όλεθρος < όλλυμι)].

Greek Monotonic

ἐξολοθρεύω: μέλ. -σω, καταστρέφω εντελώς, αφανίζω, σε Καινή Διαθήκη

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ἐξολοθρεύω: истреблять, pass. истребляться, гибнуть (ἐξολοθρευθήσεται ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ NT).