Ancient Greek

Adverb

εἰκῇ • ‎(eikêi)

1. without cause
2. without planning, heedlessly, rashly, haphazardly
3. without purpose, for no reason
4. vainly, to no avail
5. slightly, moderately

Descendants

• Aramaic:

• Classical Syriac: ܐܝܩܐ ‎(ʾīqēʾ)

References

• εἰκῇ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• εἰκῇ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «εἰκῇ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «εἰκῇ» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1500”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill