Quick Definition
to be at the extremity
Strong's Definition
finally, i.e. (with G2192 (ἔχω)) at the extremity of life
Derivation: adverb from G2078 (ἔσχατος);
KJV Usage: point of death
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐσχάτως, adverb, extremely (Xenophon, an. 2, 6, 1; Aristotle, others); ἐσχάτως ἔχειν (in extremis esse), to be in the last gasp, at the point of death: Mar_5:23. Diodorus excerpt Vales. p. 242 (i. e. from l. 10 § 2, 4 Dindorf); Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 3, 60. The phrase is censured by the Atticists; cf. Fischer, De vitiis lexamples etc., p. 704f; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 389; Fritzsche on Mark, p. 178f; (Winer's 26).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐσχάτως eschatōs 1x
to be in the last extremity, Mar_5:23
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἐσχάτως ,
adv. ,
extremely, utterly; ἐ . ἔχειν ( = Lat. in extremis esse), only in late writers ( cf. ἐν ἐσχάτοις εἶναι , FlJ , Ant., ix, 8, 6), to be at the point of death: Mar_5:28 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐσχάτως [page 256]
The phrase ἐσχάτως ἔχειν , which in the NT occurs only in Mar_5:23 , is censured by the Atticists, see Lobeck Phryn. p. 389, Rutherford NP p. 481. For other exx. of the intrans. use of ἔχω with an adv., see s.v. ἔχω .
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐσχάτως
adv.,
extremely, utterly; ἐ. ἔχειν (= Lat. in extremis esse), only in late writers (cf. ἐν ἐσχάτοις εἶναι, FlJ, Ant., ix, 8, 6), to be at the point of death: Mrk.5:28.†
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