Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 550: ἀπεῖπονἀπεῖπον: (εἶπον, 2 aorist from the obsolete ἐπω); 1. to speak out, set forth, declare (Homer, Iliad 7, 416 ἀγγελιην ἀπηιπεν, 9, 309 τόν μυθον ἀποειπεῖν). 2. to forbid: 1 Kings 11:2, and in Attic writings. 3. to give up, renounce: with the accusative of the thing, Job 10:3 (for מָאַס), and often in Greek writings from Homer down. In the same sense 1 aorist middle ἀπειπαμην, 2 Corinthians 4:2 (see WHs Appendix, p. 164) (cf. αἰσχύνη, 1); so too in Herodotus 1, 59; 5, 56; 7, 14 (etc.), and the later writings from Polybius down. |