Quick Definition
μονόω v. I leave alone
Strong's Definition
from 3441; to isolate, i.e. bereave
KJV Usage: be desolate
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | μονή · μονογενής · μόνος · μονόφθαλμος
10.13 · (μονόομαι) · Kinship Terms · Groups and Members of Groups of Persons Regarded as Related by Blood but without Special Reference to Successive Generations
to be without a family, to be without relatives to be left without a family In 1TI 5:5 χήρα would mean that the woman’s husband had died, but μεμονωμένη would imply that she had no relatives who would be in a position to help her.
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μονόω monoō 1x
to leave alone; pass. to be left alone, be lone, 1 Tim. 5:5*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** μονόω, -ῶ
(< μόνος), [in Aq.: Ge 49:6;]
to leave alone, forsake: of a childless widow, pf. ptcp. pass., I Ti 5:5.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μονόω. This common classical verb may be illustrated from Musonius p. 73} εἰ δ’ ὁμολογήσεις τὴν ἀνθρωπείαν φύσιν μελίσσῃ μάλιστα προσεοικέναι, ἢ μὴ δύναται μόνη ζῆν, | ἀπόλλυται γὰρ μονωθεῖσα «rh. Fora possible instance of the subst. μόνωσις see Chrest. 11. 555 (ap. 368) with the editor's note. With Tob 1%, where the Most High is said to have given Tobit χάριν καὶ μορφήν, ‘‘grace and favour (beauty, RV marg.)”’ in the sight of Enemessar, cf. the forms of salutation P Leid Di (z.c. 162) (=I. Ρ- 25) περὶ μὲν οὖν τούτων ὅοι (/. δοίη or δοῖέν) σοι ὁ Σάραπις καὶ 4 Ἶσις ἐπαφροδισί[αἷν, χάριν, μορφὴν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα, and ib. K¥ (c. Bc. 99) (ΞΞ 1. p. 52) πα[ρακαϊλῶ δὲ κ[αὶ] αὐτὸς τοὺς θεούς, ὅπως δῶσιν αὐτοῖς χίάριν καὶ μοϊ]ρφ[ὴϊν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα : see also Syil 802 (-- 3 1168)9 (ς. Ec. 320) νεανίσκον εὐπρεπῆ τὰμ μορφάν, Vett. Val. p. 15 6]... ἥλιος εν σημαίνει. ἐπὶ γενέσεως βασιλείαν... φρόνησιν, μορφήν, κίνησιν, ὕψος τύχης κτλ., where the editor understands by μορφήν, “ pulchritudinem.” Kennedy (ad Phil 25 in 57) has shown from the LXX usage that “the word had come, in later Greek, to receive a vague, general meaning, far removed from the accurate, metaphysical content which belonged to it in writers like Plato and Aristotle.” Hence the meaning must not be over-pressed in the NT occurrences, though μορφή ‘always signifies a form which truly and fully expresses the being which underlies it.” This is seen in such passages from the papyri as P Leid WES (ii/iii sp.) (Ξ Π. p. 103) σὲ μόνον ἐπικαλοῦμαι, τὸν μόνον ἔν κόσμῳ διατάξαντα θεοῖς καὶ ἀνθρώποις, τὸν ἑαυτὸν ἀλλάξαντα σεαυτὸν μορφαῖς ἁγίαις καὶ ἐκ μὴ ὄντων εἶναι ποιήσαντα, if. τ"5.25 (— ΤΙ, Ρ- 127) ἐπικαλοῦμαί σε, κύριε, ἵνα μοι φάνῃ ἡ ἀλητί = θ᾽ ινή σου μορφή, and the magic P Lond 121592 (iii/a.p.) (= 1. p- 102) ἧκέ μοι, τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἀεροπετές,. .. καὶ ἔμβηθι αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν ψυχήν, ἵνα τυπώσηται τὴν ἀθάνατον μορφὴν ἐν φωτὶ κραταιῷ καὶ ἀφθάρτῳ. The word is found fr in the resenpt of Antiochus 1., OG/S 383 (mid. i/B.C.)—*7 μορφῆς μὲν (εἰκόνας παντοίαι τέχνη... κοσμήσας, 2 σῶμα (Ξ- 1238)" (6. αὐ. 160) μορφή is combined with the more outward σχῆμα.--συγχέαι τῆς μορφῆς καὶ τοῦ σχήparos, and in Kathe] 1118 it is used with reference to 2 compse— Μικρὰ μὲν ἡ λίθος ἐστίν, ἔχει δ᾽ ἡδέῖαν ὁὀπωπόν ἔνδον τίῶ᾽ν μορφῶν, ὡς ἰὸν ἐν ταλάροις. In Epict. iv. 5. 19 μορφή is practically equivalent to ἤ ἐκτὸς περιγραφή or σχῆμα: cf. Mk 164) where Lightfoot (Philippians*, p. 129) admits that μορφή ‘“‘has no
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
μονόω (monoō) — to leave alone. μονόω, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect μουνόω, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; but μον- in [Refs 8th c.BC+]: (μόνος):— make single or solitary, ἡμετέρην γενεὴν μούνωσε Κρονίων made our race single, i. e. allowed but one son in each generation, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; μ. τὸν Φίλιππον leave him isolated, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; get alone, τινὰ ἐν σπήλυγγι [Refs]; strip of predicates, make unique, [θεόν] [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
II. more frequently in passive, to be left alone, forsaken, ἐνὶ Τρώεσσι μονωθείς [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐμουνοῦντο they were left each man by himself, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μουνωθέντα taken apart, without witnesses (variant for{μουνόθεν}), [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of animals when hunted, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; when left solitary, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the soul, to be separated from the body, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of things, to be taken alone, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; to be isolated in thought, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
II.2. with genitive person, μεμουνωμένοι συμμάχων deserted by allies, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μονωθεὶς δάμαρτος, σοῦ μονούμενος, [Refs 5th c.BC+] bereft of.., [Refs 1st c.BC+]; μονούμενος τῶν ἀγαθῶν separated from.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μονωθεῖσαι φρονήσεως without.., [Refs]; μονωθεὶς ἐκ τῆς εἱρκτῆς, i. e. set free from.., [Refs]