- Transliteration: Egkataleipo

- Phonetic: eng-kat-al-i'-po

- Definition:

1. abandon, desert

a. leave in straits, leave helpless

b. totally abandoned, utterly forsaken

2. to leave behind among, to leave surviving

- Origin: from G1722" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1722 and G2641" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2641

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G1722" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1722 and G2641" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2641; to leave behind in some place that is (in a good sense) let remain over or (in a bad one) to desert: - forsake leave.