ἈΜΑΥΡΩΣΑΙ, ἀμαυρωσαι
AMAURŌSAI, amaurōsai
Sounds Like: ah-mow-ROH-sai
Translations: to darken, to dim, to obscure, to make blind, to make dim, to make obscure
From the root: ἈΜΑΥΡΌΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to make something dark, dim, or obscure. It can refer to physical darkness, like dimming light, or to making something intellectually or spiritually unclear, like obscuring understanding or making someone blind. It is used to describe the act of causing something to lose its brightness or clarity.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0262 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 9 — 4:56
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΜΑΥΡΌΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΜΑΥΡΩΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — it will be darkened, it will be dimmed, it will be made obscure, it will be made faint
- ἨΜΑΥΡΩΣΕΝ — darkened, dimmed, obscured, made faint
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