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ἐπιλείπωStrong’s G1952

epileipō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

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Epileipō is the Greek word usually translated “fail”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:”
Hebrews 11:32 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “fail”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • will fail 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Hebrews 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    ἐπιλείπω epileipō · be insufficient

    ἐπι-λείπω [in LXX: Ob 5 א1 R (שָׁאַר hi.) * ;] to fail: with accusative of person(s), Heb.11:32.† (AS)

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    FAIL, verb intransitive

    [Latin fallo; Gr. whence; Eng. felony. It seems to be allied to fall, fallow, pale, and many other words.]

    1. To become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply; or to be entirely wanting.
    2. To decay; to decline; to sink; to be diminished.
    3. To decline; to decay; to sink; to become weaker; as, the patient fails every hour.
    4. To be extinct; to cease; to be entirely wanting; to be no longer produced.“Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men” Psalms 12:1
    All definitions and other forms of “fail”
    1. To be entirely exhausted; to be wanting; to cease from supply.“Money failed in the land of Egypt” Genesis 47:15
    2. To cease; to perish; to be lost.
    3. To die.“They shall all fail together” Isaiah 31:3
    4. To decay; to decline; as, the sight fails in old age.
    5. To become deficient or wanting; as, the heart or the courage fails.
    6. To miss; not to produce the effect. the experiment was made with care, but failed, or failed to produce the effect, or failed of the effect.
    7. To be deficient in duty; to omit or neglect. the debtor failed to fulfil his promise.
    8. To miss; to miscarry; to be frustrated or disappointed.
    9. To be neglected; to fall short; not to be executed. the promises of a man of probity seldom fail
    10. To become insolvent or bankrupt.

    FAIL, verb transitive

    1. To desert; to disappoint; to cease or to neglect or omit to afford aid, supply or strength. it is said, fortune never fails the brave.
    2. to omit; not to perform.
    3. to be wanting to.“There shall never fail thee a man on the throne” 1 Kings 2:4

    FAIL, noun

    Omission; non-performance.

    1. He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites. Joshua 3:10
    2. Miscarriage; failure; deficience; want; death.

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

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.