ἐγκαταλείπω

Matthew 27:46 ἐγκατέλιπες;¶ have you forsaken?

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Here: 'Did you leave me behind / abandon me?' The word describes leaving someone alone in a place of danger. In the psalms it describes God not stepping in to rescue the sufferer from enemies and death. The past tense looks at the abandonment as one completed act.

Mark 15:34 ἐγκατέλιπές have You forsaken

At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Here: 'You left me behind' or 'you abandoned me': left in a desperate situation with no rescue. It is a simple past tense, seen as a done deed whose effect continues. The Greek Psalms use this same verb in Psalm 22:1.

Acts 2:27 ἐγκαταλείψεις You will abandon

because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Here: "You will abandon". It means walking away from someone who depends on you and leaving them helpless. With 'into' it pictures being handed over and left in a place. The same verb is in Jesus' cry 'why have you forsaken me?' (Mark 15:34, quoting Ps 22:1 in Greek).

Acts 2:31 ἐγκατελείφθη was He left behind

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

Romans 9:29 ἐγκατέλιπεν had left

It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

Here: Here "left remaining, let survive." The same verb often means "abandon" ("why have you forsaken me"). Here it is the opposite: God kept something back from destruction.

2 Corinthians 4:9 ἐγκαταλειπόμενοι, being forsaken,

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

Here: "Being left behind / abandoned." With "pursued" in the first half, the picture is a fugitive who is not left to his hunters, or a soldier not left on the field when the army pulls back. The word carries strong Greek Old Testament echoes of God promising not to abandon his people (Deut 31:6; Ps 37:28) and of the cry "why have you forsaken me?" (Ps 22:1).

2 Timothy 4:10 ἐγκατέλιπεν has deserted

because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Here: A strong word for leaving someone alone when they are in trouble and need you, the same verb as in 'My God, why have you forsaken me?' (Mark 15:34). The past tense presents it as a done thing.

2 Timothy 4:16 ἐγκατέλιπον· deserted;

At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

Here: "Left me in the lurch": abandoning someone in a place of danger. This is the verb of Psalm 22:1 ("why have you forsaken me?") and of Demas's desertion in 4:10.

Hebrews 10:25 ἐγκαταλείποντες forsaking

Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Here: The word for leaving someone in the lurch: deserting a friend, abandoning a post. The present tense pictures an ongoing drift away. It is a participle hanging on 'let us consider one another' in verse 24, describing how that mutual care is carried out: by not walking out on one another.

Hebrews 13:5 ἐγκαταλίπω· shall I forsake;

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

Here: To leave someone behind in a place, usually a place of danger: to desert them, leave them stranded. It is the verb of Psalm 22:1 ('why have you forsaken me?') and of Hebrews 10:25 ('not forsaking our meeting together').