| Lexical Summary tēkō: to melt (down), to melt awayOriginal Word: τήκω Transliteration: tēkō Phonetic Spelling: (tay'-ko) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to melt (down), to melt away Meaning: to melt (down), to melt away Strong's Concordancemelt. Apparently a primary verb; to liquefy -- melt. Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 5080: τήκω τήκω: from Homer down; to make liquid; passive, to become liquid, to melt; to perish or be destroyed by melting: 2 Peter 3:12, where for the present 3 person singular τήκεται Lachmann gives the future τακήσεται (see WH on the passage and in their Appendix, p. 171), cf. Isaiah 34:4 τακήσονται πᾶσαι αἱ δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν. (Cf. Veitch, under the word.) | 



