- ἐκτίθημι
- ἐκτίθημι fut. 3 sg. ἐκθήσει Job 36:15; aor. ἐξέθηκα LXX; impf. mid. ἐξετιθέμην; fut. ἐκθήσομαι (Tat. 4, 3). Pass.: fut. 3 sg. ἐκτεθήσεται Zech 1:16; 1 aor. ἐξετέθην. In our lit. not in the act. (s. τίθημι; Hom.+) ‘to set outside’ (a bed Od. 23, 179), then① withdraw support or protection from, expose, abandon (Hdt. 1, 112; Jos., C. Ap. 1, 308) of children (so act. and mid. since Hdt. 1, 112; Diod S 2, 4, 3 παιδίον; 3, 58, 1; 4, 64, 1 τὸ βρέφος; Aelian, VH 2, 7; Lucian, Sacr. 5; BGU 1104, 24 [8 B.C.] τὸ βρέφος ἐκτίθεσθαι; Wsd 18:5; Just., A I, 27, 1 τὰ γεννώμενα; Ath. 35:2 τὸ γεννηθέν) Ac 7:21 (of Moses also Philo, Mos. 1, 12; Mel., P. 59, 433 and 69, 502); ApcPt Fgm. 3, p. 12, 37 (εἰς θάνατον indicates the normal result of the exposure); cp. Fgm. 1, p. 12, 12.—On exposure of infants in antiquity s. P van der Horst, The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides ’78, 233f; MHuys; ἔκθεσις and ἀπόθεσις—The Terminology of Infant Exposure in Greek Antiquity: AntCl 58, ’89, 190–97. S. also ῥίπτω 1.② to convey information by careful elaboration, explain, expound, fig. ext. of mng. 1, cp. our ‘fill someone in on someth.’ (Aristot. et al.; Diod S 12, 18, 4; Athen. 7, 278d; PHib 27, 24 τὴν ἀλήθειαν; 2 Macc 11:36; EpArist 1; 161; Jos., Ant. 1, 214; Ar. 8, 2 [w. acc. and inf.]; Tat.) τί τινι someth. to someone (PMeyer 1, 13 [II B.C.] ᾧ καὶ τὰ καθʼ ἑαυτοὺς ἐκτεθειμένων ἡμῶν; Jos., Ant. 2, 11) Ac 18:26; 28:23. ApcPt Rainer 14f. τινί w. λέγων foll. 11:4.—M-M.
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