ekthetos describes infants forced into exposure so that they would not survive.

The attested use describes infants being put out under coercion, with their survival denied in the surrounding clause of Acts 7:19.

1. Infants put out to die · dominant

   In Acts 7:19, the accusative plural neuter form occurs in the clause about mistreatment of the fathers' infants; the APB renders the action as forcing them to "expose their infants so they would not survive."

   Acts 7:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Acts 7:19, the APB presents the clause as people being forced to "expose their infants so they would not survive." It does not isolate the term's exact English equivalent.