| Lexical Summary ekpneō: to breathe out, expireOriginal Word: ἐκπνέω Transliteration: ekpneō Phonetic Spelling: (ek-pneh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to breathe out, expire Meaning: to breathe out, expire Strong's Concordancegive up the ghost. From ek and pneo; to expire -- give up the ghost. see GREEK ek see GREEK pneo Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 1606: ἐκπνέω ἐκπνέω: 1 aorist ἐξέπνευσα; to breathe out, breathe out one's life, breathe one's last, expire: Mark 15:37, 39; Luke 23:46, and often in Greek writings, both without an object (from (Sophocles Aj. 1026) Euripides down), and with βίον or ψυχήν added (from Aeschylus down). | 



