To leave behind

Usually translated “have you forsaken”, “abandon” and “was he left behind”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• have you forsaken 2
• you will abandon 1
• was he left behind 1
• had left 1
• being forsaken 1
• has deserted 1
• deserted 1
• forsaking 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 2
• 2 Timothy 2
• Hebrews 2
• Matthew 1
• Mark 1
• Romans 1

7 books in all.

• Mark 15:34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• Acts 2:27Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
• Acts 2:31He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
• Romans 9:29And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
• 2 Corinthians 4:9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
• 2 Timothy 4:10For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “deserted” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.