STRONGS G2641:
καταλείπω; future
καταλείψω; 1 aorist
κατελειψα (in later authors; cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 713ff; (
Veitch, under the word
λείπω;
WH's Appendix, p. 169f)); 2 aorist
κατέλιπον; passive, present
καταλείπομαι; perfect participle
καταλελειμμένος (
WH καταλελιμμενος, see (their Appendix, p. 154b, and) under the word Iota); 1 aorist
κατελείφθην; (see
κατά, III. 5); the
Sept. for
הותִיר,
הִשְׁאִיר,
עָזַב; (from
Homer down);
to leave behind; with the accusative of place or person;
a. equivalent to
to depart from, leave, a person or thing:
Matthew 4:13;
Matthew 16:4;
Matthew 21:17;
Hebrews 11:27; metaphorically,
εὐθεῖαν ὁδόν, to forsake true religion,
2 Peter 2:15. passive
to be left:
John 8:9; equivalent to to remain, followed by
ἐν with the dative of place,
1 Thessalonians 3:1.
b. equivalent to
to bid (one) to remain:
τινα in a place,
Acts 18:19;
Titus 1:5 (
R G; others
ἀπολείπω).
c. to forsake, leave to oneself a person or thing, by ceasing to care for it,
to abandon, leave in the lurch:
καταλείψει...
τόν πατέρα καί τήν μητέρα,
Matthew 19:5;
Mark 10:7;
Ephesians 5:31, from
Genesis 2:24; passive
to be abandoned, forsaken:
εἰς ᾅδου (or
ᾅδην (which see 2)),
Acts 2:31 Rec. (see
ἐγκαταλείπω, 1); with the accusative of the thing,
Mark 14:52; Luke (
Luke 5:28);
Luke 15:4;
τόν λόγον, to neglect the office of instruction,
Acts 6:2.
d. to cause to be left over, to reserve, to leave remaining:
ἐμαυτῷ,
Romans 11:4 (
1 Kings 19:18);
καταλείπεται,
there still remains, ἐπαγγελία, a promise (to be made good by the event),
Hebrews 4:1 (
μάχη,
Xenophon, Cyril 2, 3, 11;
σωτηρίας ἐλπίς,
Josephus,
b. j. 4, 5, 4);
τινα with an infinitive (to leave any business to be done by one alone),
Luke 10:40.
e. like our
leave behind, it is used of one who on being called away cannot take another with him:
Acts 24:27;
Acts 25:14; specifically, of the dying (to leave behind),
Mark 12:19 (
Mark 12:21 L marginal reading
T Tr WH);
Luke 20:31 (
Deuteronomy 28:54;
Proverbs 20:7; and often in Greek writings from
Homer Iliad 24, 726; Odyssey 21, 33 on).
f. like our
leave equivalent to leave alone, disregard: of those who sail past a place without stopping,
Acts 21:3. (Compare:
ἐγκαταλείπω.)
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