1. lose heart, grow weary — To become discouraged, faint-hearted, or weary in the face of difficulty or prolonged effort. All six NT occurrences carry the same core meaning of spiritual or emotional exhaustion despite varying orthography (engk-/egk- forms). Used in 2 Cor 4:1,16 (we do not lose heart in ministry), Gal 6:9 (let us not grow weary in doing good), 2 Thess 3:13 (do not tire of doing right), Luke 18:1 (parable urging prayer without losing heart), Eph 3:13 (do not be discouraged by tribulations). Cross-linguistically uniform: Arabic nafshalu/nakillu (fail/flag), French se-decourager throughout, Spanish desmayar/cansar/desfallecer, Hebrew nilim/yitvaesh (weary/despair), Korean naksimhaji (not lose heart). No genuine polysemy exists; the four auto-clusters merely reflect inflectional variation (present indicative, present infinitive, aorist subjunctive, present subjunctive). 6×
AR["تَفشَلوا","تَمَلّوا","نَفشَلُ","نَكِلُّ","يَيأَسوا"]·ben["আমরা-ক্লান্ত-হই;","আমরা-হারিয়ে-যাই;","আমরা-হারিয়ে-যাই।","ক্লান্ত-হয়ো","নিরুৎসাহিত-হতে","হতাশ-হতে"]·DE["ἐγκακήσητε","ἐγκακοῦμεν","ἐνκακεῖν","ἐνκακῶμεν"]·EN["grow-weary","let-us-grow-weary","to-lose-heart","we-lose-heart"]·FR["se-décourager"]·heb["לְהִתְיָאֵשׁ","נִלְאִים","נִתְיָאֵשׁ;","תִּתְיָאֲשׁוּ","תֵּחַלְּשׁוּ"]·HI["थकना","थको","हअरोन","हारते-हैं-हम","हुम-थकेन;"]·ID["kami-tawar-hati","kita-lelah","menjadi-lelah","menjadi-tawar-hati","tawar-hati"]·IT["egkakēsēte","enkakein","enkakōmen","scoraggiarsi"]·jav["kawon-ing-manah.","kawon-ing-manah;","kita-loyo;","nglokro,","sayah","semplah"]·KO["낙담하지-말라","낙심하자;","낙심하지","낙심하지-않는다","낛심하지"]·PT["desanimamos","desanimardes","vos-canseis"]·RU["унываем","унывайте","унывать","унывать-будем"]·ES["desfallezcamos","desmayamos","desmayar","os-canséis"]·SW["choke","katika","moyo.","moyo;","tamaa"]·TR["bezdirmeyin","usanmayalım","yilmak","yılmaları","yılıyoruz"]·urd["تھکنا","تھکو-نہ","تھکیں","ہمت-ہارتے-ہیں","ہمت-ہارنے-کو"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἐκκᾰκέω, to be faint-hearted, lose heart, grow weary, variant for{ἐγκ-}, NT