Word Summary
eschatōs: extremely
Original Word: ἐσχάτωςTransliteration: eschatōs
Phonetic Spelling: (es-khat'-oce)
Part of Speech: Adverb, Superlative
Short Definition: extremely
Meaning: extremely
Strong's Concordance
point of death.
Adverb from eschatos; finally, i.e. (with echo) at the extremity of life -- point of death.
see GREEK eschatos
see GREEK echo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2079: ἐσχάτωςἐσχάτως, 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:
Mark 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).