Verb · It was thought that 'elakesen' (Act ἄλφα (G1):18) derived from 'lasko', but now scholarship credits 'lakao' with the source (cf. Moulton-Milligan and BDAG).
A strengthened form of a primary verb, which only occurs in this and another prolonged form as alternate in certain tenses; to crack open (from a fall):—burst asunder.
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