Strong's Greek: 1594. ἐκνήφω (eknéphó) -- to become sober (after drunkenness)

Strong's Concordance

eknéphó: to become sober (after drunkenness)

Original Word: ἐκνήφω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: eknéphó
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-nay'-fo)
Short Definition: I return to soberness of mind
Definition: I return to soberness of mind.

HELPS Word-studies

1594 eknḗphō (from 1537 /ek, "wholly out of" and 3525 /nḗphō, "be sober") – properly, delivered out of drunkenness and to sobriety (seriousness), i.e. with the awareness outcome of being responsibly aware; (figuratively) aroused (awakened) out of the stupor of spiritual delusion (apathy); "to come to one's senses" (L & N, 1, 30.26); sober-minded because "snapped out of" the intoxicating influence of sin (darkness) and brought into keen alertness of spiritual truth (conviction, faith, etc.). 1594 (eknḗphō) is only used in 1 Cor 15:34.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 1594: ἐκνήφω

ἐκνήφω: 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).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

to come to one's senses

From ek and nepho; (figuratively) to rouse (oneself) out of stupor -- awake.

see GREEK ek

see GREEK nepho

Forms and Transliterations

εκνηψατε εκνήψατε ἐκνήψατε έκνηψιν έκνηψον εκνήψουσιν εκουσιαζόμενος εκουσιαζομένους εκουσιαζομένω εκουσιαζομένων εκουσιάσαντο εκουσιάσασθαί εκουσιασθέντα εκουσιάσθην εκουσιάσθησαν εκουσιασμού εκουσιασμώ εξένηψε εξένηψεν ηκουσιάσαντο eknepsate eknēpsate eknḗpsate

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