Quick Definition
ψύχω v. I cool, grow cold
Strong's Definition
a primary verb; to breathe (voluntarily but gently, thus differing on the one hand from 4154, which denotes properly a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of 109, which refers properly to an inanimate breeze), i.e. (by implication, of reduction of temperature by evaporation) to chill (figuratively)
KJV Usage: wax cold
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | ἀνάψυξις · ἀναψύχω · ἄψυχος · δίψυχος · ἐκψύχω · εὐψυχέω · ἰσόψυχος · καταψύχω · ὀλιγόψυχος · σύμψυχος · ψυχή · ψυχικός · ψῦχος · ψυχρός
78.39 · (ψύχομαι) · Degree · More Than, Less Than [Comparative Degree]
to diminish greatly, to become cold (a figurative extension of meaning of ψύχομαι ‘to become cold,’ not occurring in the NT) to diminish significantly in intensity
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ψύχω: 2 fut. pass. ψυγήσομαι [cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p- 318 ; Moeris ed. Piers. p. 421 s. v.]; fr. Hom. down ; fo breathe, blow, cool by blowing ; pass. to be made or to grow cool or cold: trop. of waning love, Mt. xxiv. 12.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ψύχω psychō 1x
to breathe; to cool; pass. to be cooled; met. of affection, Mt. 24:12*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ψύχω
[in LXX for קוּר, שׁטח ;]
to breathe, blow; hence, to make cool. Pass., to grow cool: metaph., Mt 24:12.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ψύχω is used metaph. in pass. in Mt 2413 = “πὶ become cool.” For the act. “make cool,” see P Petr II. 14(3)8 (iii/B.c.) (as read p. 30) eis? τὸ θεμέλιον Wheat, “for drying the foundation ”—with reference to certain building operations. See Lob. Phryn. p. 318.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ψύχω (psuchō) — to cool. ψύχω, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ψύξω [Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist ἔψυξα [Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect ἔψῡχα Ps.-[Refs 2nd c.AD+] H.:—passive, future ψυχθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: future [NT+2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἐψύχθην [Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist 2 ἐψύχην [ῠ] [Refs 5th c.BC+] P.: perfect ἔψυγμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—breathe, blow, Ἀθήνη.. ἦκα μάλα ψύξασα [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II. make cool or cold (not necessarily by blowing), ἀπιὼν ἐπὶ μᾶλλον ψύχει (i.e. ὁ ἥλιος) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to θερμαίνω, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, grow cool or cold, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of fire, to be put out, [Refs 5th c.BC+]will grow cold, [NT]
II.2. cool, refresh, θάλπουσα καὶ ψύχουσα, of a nurse tending a child, [Refs]: intransitive in active, seek the cool air, [LXX+2nd c.BC+]
II.3. chill, torment, ἀμφάκει κέντρῳ ψύχειν ψυχὰν ἐμάν (Meineke conjecture ψήχειν) [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of death, ψύξει σε δαίμων τῷ πεπρωμένῳ χρόνῳ [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, ψύχετ᾽ ἀμηχανίῃ [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
II.4. metaphorically in passive, to be frigid, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
III. dry, make dry, δάκρυα δ᾽ οὐ ψύχει γενέτης ἐμός [LXX]: air, ἱμάτια [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὗ τὰ σῦκα ψύχεται, gloss on{τρασιά}, [Refs 8th c.BC+] generally of drying in the wind, opposed to τερσήμεναι of drying in the sun, [Refs 8th c.BC+] [ῡ always, except in aorist 2 passive, see [Refs 5th c.BC+]