ἈΝΕΘΗΚΑΝ, ἀνεθηκαν
ANETHĒKAN, anethēkan
Sounds Like: ah-NEH-thay-kahn
Translations: they offered, they dedicated, they placed, they laid up, they set up
From the root: ἈΝΑΤΙΘΗΜΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is the third person plural, aorist active indicative form of the verb ἀνατίθημι (anatithēmi). It means 'they offered,' 'they dedicated,' 'they placed,' or 'they laid up.' It describes an action of placing something up, dedicating it, or offering it, often in a religious or formal context. For example, it can be used when people dedicate items to a deity or place something in a specific, often elevated, position.
Inflection: Third Person, Plural, Aorist, Active, Indicative
Strong’s number: G0399 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:27
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 14:374
Justin Martyr
- First Apology of Justin Martyr — 49:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΑΤΙΘΗΜΙ.
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.
- ἈΝΑΘΕΙΗ — may dedicate, may set up, may refer, may attribute
- ἈΝΑΘΕΙΝΑΙ — to dedicate, to set up, to offer, to refer, to lay before
- ἈΝΑΘΕΜΕΝΟΣ — having offered, having dedicated, having laid up, having referred, having committed, having set forth
- ἈΝΑΘΕΝΤΕΣ — having set up, having dedicated, having offered, having placed, having laid up
- ἈΝΑΘΗ — dedicate, consecrate, set up, offer, devote
- ἈΝΑΘΗΣΟΝΤΕΣ — who will dedicate, those who will dedicate, to dedicate, to set up, to lay upon, to refer
- ἈΝΑΤΕΘΗΝΑΙ — to dedicate, to set up, to lay before, to refer, to offer, to present
- ἈΝΑΤΙΘΕΑΣΙ — they place upon, they offer, they dedicate, they lay upon, they set up
- ἈΝΑΤΙΘΕΝΑΙ — to set forth, to lay before, to present, to refer, to commit, to dedicate
- ἈΝΑΤΙΘΕΤΕ — you all offer up, you all dedicate, you all lay before, you all present, offer up!, dedicate!, lay before!, present!
- ἈΝΑΤΙΘΗΜΙ — to set up, to dedicate, to offer, to refer, to commit, to lay before
- ἈΝΕΘΗΚΑΜΕΝ — we dedicated, we offered, we devoted, we set up, we laid up
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