Lexical Summary eknēphō: to become sober (after drunkenness) Original Word: ἐκνήφωTransliteration: eknēphō Phonetic Spelling: (ek-nay'-fo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to become sober (after drunkenness) Meaning: to become sober (after drunkenness) Strong's Concordance to come to one's sensesFrom ek and nepho; (figuratively) to rouse (oneself) out of stupor -- awake. see GREEK ek see GREEK nepho Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1594: ἐκνήφωἐκνήφω: 1 aorist ἐξενηψα; a. properly, to return to oneself from drunkenness, become sober (Genesis 9:24; (1 Samuel 25:37); Joel 1:5; (Sir. 34:2 (Sir. 31:2)); Lynceus quoted in Ath. 4, 5, p. 130 b.). b. metaphorically, to return to soberness of mind (cf. ἀνανήφω): 1 Corinthians 15:34 (Plutarch, Demosthenes 20). |
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