ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΟΥΝΤΕΣ, ἀμφισβητουντες
AMPHISBĒTOUNTES, amphisbētountes
Sounds Like: am-fees-bay-TOON-tes
Translations: disputing, contending, questioning, doubting, arguing, gainsaying
From the root: ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΕΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle derived from the verb ἀμφισβητέω. It describes someone who is currently engaged in a dispute, argument, or questioning of something. It can refer to people who are contending for something, doubting a claim, or arguing against a point. As a participle, it functions both as a verb, indicating an action, and as an adjective, describing the subject performing that action.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Masculine or Neuter, Plural, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G292 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 6:183
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.
- ἈΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΕΙΝ — to dispute, to contend, to question, to doubt
- 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
- 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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