ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΕΙΝ, ἀμφισβητειν
AMPHISBĒTEIN, amphisbētein
Sounds Like: am-phis-bay-TEIN
Translations: to dispute, to contend, to question, to doubt
From the root: ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to dispute, contend, or question something. It is often used in contexts of legal arguments, debates, or expressing doubt about a statement or claim. It describes the act of challenging or calling into question the truth or validity of something.
Inflection: Present, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0292 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 2:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΕΩ.
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.
- ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΗΜΑ — dispute, controversy, question, a dispute, a controversy, a question
- ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΗΣΑΝΤΙ — disputing, having disputed, contending, having contended, questioning, having questioned, arguing, having argued
- ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΟΥΜΕΝΩΝ — of disputed matters, of things disputed, of things in dispute
- ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΟΥΝΤΕΣ — disputing, contending, questioning, doubting, arguing, gainsaying
- ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΟΥΝΤΙ — (to) one disputing, (to) one contending, (to) one arguing, (to) one questioning
- ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΩΝ — disputing, contending, questioning, one who disputes, he who disputes
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