ἈΝΑΣΠΑΝ, ἀνασπαν
ANASPAN, anaspan
Sounds Like: ah-nas-PAN
Translations: to draw up, to pull up, to pull back, to rescue
From the root: ἈΝΑΣΠΑΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an aorist active infinitive form of the verb ἀνασπάω. It is a compound word formed from ἀνά (ana), meaning 'up' or 'back', and σπάω (spao), meaning 'to draw' or 'to pull'. It generally means to draw something upwards, to pull it out, or to rescue it by pulling it back. It can be used in contexts like pulling an animal out of a pit or drawing water from a well.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0386 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 8:310
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΑΣΠΑΩ.
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.
- ἈΝΑΣΠΑΣΑΣ — having drawn up, having pulled up, having pulled out, having taken out
- ἈΝΑΣΠΑΣΑΣΘΑΙ — to pull up, to draw up, to take up, to rescue
- ἈΝΑΣΠΑΣΕΙ — will draw up, will pull up, will lift up
- ἈΝΑΣΠΑΩ — to draw up, to pull up, to pull back
- ἈΝΑΣΠΩΝΤΕΣ — pulling up, drawing up, taking up, digging up, tearing up
- ἈΝΕΣΠΑΣΕΝ — drew up, pulled up, lifted up, rescued
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