- ἐξαλείφω
- ἐξαλείφω fut. ἐξαλείψω LXX; 1 aor. ἐξήλειψα. Pass.: 1 fut. 3 sg. ἐξαλειφθήσεται LXX; Hs 9, 24, 4; 1 aor. ἐξηλείφθην, inf. ἐξαλειφθῆναι LXX; Ac 3:19; 1 Cl 53:5 and 2 aor. ἐξαλιφῆναι 1 Ch 29:4 cod. B (s. ἀλείφω; Aeschyl., Hdt. et al.; ins, pap, LXX, En; TestJud 22:3 v.l.; ApcEsdr 3:6 p. 27, 14).① in accordance w. the prim. mng. to cause to disappear by wipingⓐ wipe away πᾶν δάκρουν ἐκ (v.l. ἀπό) τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν Rv 7:17; 21:4.ⓑ wipe out, erase (X., Hell. 2, 3, 51 τινὰ ἐκ τ. καταλόγου; Anaxippus Com. [IV B.C.] 1, 5 ἐκ τ. βυβλίων; SIG 921, 19 ἐξαλειψάτω τὸ ὄνομα ὁ ἱερεύς, OGI 218, 129; Ps 68:29 ἐ. ἐκ βίβλου ζώντων; Jos., Ant. 6, 133 τὸ ὄνομα ἐ.) τὸ ὄνομα ἐκ τῆς βίβλου τῆς ζωῆς the name fr. the book of life Rv 3:5; 1 Cl 53:4 (Ex 32:32).② Certain expr. show the infl. of the transition (s. the graffito in Rdm.2 228 [ref. to p. 219]: Ὁ ἐξαλίψον ταῦτα τὰ γράμματα, ἐξαλίψουσιν τὸ γένος αὐτοῦ=let the one who obliterates these letters be assured that his posterity will be obliterated) to the more general mng. to remove so as to leave no trace, remove, destroy, obliterate (Philostrat., Vi. Apoll. 8, 7 p. 313, 4; Κυπρ. I p. 58 no. 1; Jos., Ant. 17, 335), insofar as the removal results fr. the blotting out of a written record (t.t. in the papyri for washing out a papyrus sheet, s. M-M s.v.; Preis., Fachw. s.v. ἀπαλείφω; s. also Dio Chrys. 14 [31], 86; Jos., Ant. 4, 210); among the expressions are the foll.: ἐ. τὸ καθʼ ἡμῶν χειρόγραφον Col 2:14. τὸ ἀνόμημά μου 1 Cl 18:2 (Ps 50:3). τὰς ἀνομίας 18:9 (Ps 50:11; EDalglish, Ps 51 in the Light of Near East, etc., ’62, 86–89 [Semitic background]). τὰς ἁμαρτίας Ac 3:19 (cp. Ps 108:14; 3 Macc 2:19; En 10:20; PsSol 13:10). Only the more general sense is pertinent (as Diod S 3, 40, 7 ἐ. τὰς ἐλπίδας; TestJud 22:3) for 1 Cl 53:3. ἐξαλείψωμεν ἀφʼ ἡμῶν τὰ πρότερα ἁμαρτῆματα let us remove fr. ourselves our former sins 2 Cl 13:1 (ἐξ. ἀπό as Gen 7:23; PsSol 2, 17). Pass. (Lucian, Pro Imag. 26; Jos., Ant. 4, 210) 1 Cl 53:5; Hs 9, 24, 4. οὐκ ἐξαλειφθήσεται τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ no one will be able to wipe away his (Zacharias’s) blood GJs 24:2.—M-M.
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