STRONGS G3133:
μαραίνω: 1 future passive
μαρανθήσομαι; from
Homer, Iliad 9, 212; 23, 228 on;
to extinguish (a flame, fire, light, etc.); to render arid, make to waste away, cause to wither; passive
to wither, wilt, dry up (Wis. 2:8 of roses;
Job 15:30). Trop.
to waste away, consume away, perish (
νόσῳ,
Euripides, Alc. 203;
τῷ λιμῷ,
Josephus,
b. j. 6, 5, 1); equivalent to
to have a miserable end:
James 1:11, where the writer uses a figure suggested by what he had just said (10); (
Buttmann, 52 (46)).
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