ἈΝΑΠΤΥΞΑΣ, ἀναπτυξας
ANAPTYXAS, anaptyxas
Sounds Like: ah-nah-PTOO-xahs
Translations: unfolding, unrolling, opening, having unfolded, having unrolled, having opened
From the root: ἈΝΑΠΤΥΣΣΩ
Part of Speech: Participle, Verb
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle derived from the verb ἀναπτύσσω (anaptyssō), meaning 'to unfold' or 'to unroll'. It is a compound word formed from ἀνά (aná, 'up, back') and πτύσσω (ptyssō, 'to fold'). It describes the action of unrolling something, typically a scroll or book, to reveal its contents. It is often used in narrative contexts to indicate an action completed before another, such as 'having unrolled the scroll, he found the place'.
Inflection: Aorist Active Participle, Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G0380 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 44:223
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Luke — 4:17
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΑΠΤΥΣΣΩ.
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.
- ἈΝΑΠΤΥΣΣΟΜΕΝΑΙ — unfolding, unrolling, opening, developing, expanding
- ἈΝΑΠΤΥΣΣΟΜΕΝΟΣ — unfolding, spreading out, developing, being unfolded, being spread out, being developed
- ἈΝΕΠΤΥΞΕΝ — unfolded, opened, unrolled
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