Word Summary
exelkō: to draw out or away
Original Word: ἐξέλκωTransliteration: exelkō
Phonetic Spelling: (ex-el'-ko)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to draw out or away
Meaning: to draw out or away
Strong's Concordance
draw away.
From ek and helkuo; to drag forth, i.e. (figuratively) to entice (to sin) -- draw away.
see GREEK ek
see GREEK helkuo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1828: ἐξέλκωἐξέλκω: (present passive participle
ἐξελκόμενος);
to draw out, (
Homer,
Pindar, Attic writings); metaphorically, equivalent to
to lure forth (
A. V. draw away):
ὑπό τῆς ...
ἐπιθυμίας ἐξελκόμενος,
James 1:14, where the metaphor is taken from hunting and fishing: as game is lured from its covert, so man by lust is allured from the safety of self-restraint to sin. (The language of hunting seems to be transferred here (so elsewhere, cf.
Wetstein (1752) at the passage) to the seductions of a harlot, personated by
ἐπιθυμία; see
τίκτω.)