ἈΝΑΣΤΕΙΛΑΣ, ἀναστειλας
ANASTEILAS, anasteilas
Sounds Like: ah-nah-STEH-las
Translations: having restrained, having held back, having checked, having stopped, having hindered
From the root: ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle of the verb ἀναστέλλω (anastellō), meaning 'to restrain' or 'to hold back'. It is a compound word formed from ἀνά (ana), meaning 'up' or 'back', and στέλλω (stellō), meaning 'to send' or 'to arrange'. As a participle, it functions like an adjective or adverb, describing an action that has already occurred and is often translated with 'having' + past participle, indicating a completed action that precedes the main verb.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Participle, Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G0390 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 10:321
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ.
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.
- ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΙ — restrain, hold back, check, hinder, suppress, prevent, turn back
- ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΤΑΙ — is restrained, is held back, is checked, is hindered, is prevented, is withdrawn
- ἈΝΕΣΤΑΛΗ — was restrained, was held back, was stopped, was checked, was withdrawn
- ἈΝΕΣΤΑΛΗΣΑΝ — they were hindered, they were restrained, they were held back, they were stopped
- ἈΝΕΣΤΕΙΛΕΝ — restrained, held back, checked, withdrew, drew back, turned back
- ἈΝΕΣΤΕΛΛΕ — restrained, was restraining, checked, was checking, held back, was holding back, hindered, was hindering, stopped, was stopping, prevented, was preventing
- ἈΝΕΣΤΕΛΛΕΝ — he was restraining, he was checking, he was holding back, he was hindering, he was stopping
- ἈΝΕΣΤΕΛΛΟΝ — were restraining, were holding back, were checking, were hindering, were withdrawing, were turning back
- ἈΝΕΣΤΕΛΛΟΝΤΟ — they were being restrained, they were holding back, they were restraining themselves, they were being held back
- ἨΝἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΙΝ — to restrain, to hold back, to check, to hinder, to prevent
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