ἈΝΕΣΤΑΛΗ, ἀνεσταλη
ANESTALĒ, anestalē
Sounds Like: ah-nes-TAH-lee
Translations: was restrained, was held back, was stopped, was checked, was withdrawn
From the root: ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the third person singular aorist passive indicative form of the verb ἀναστέλλω. It means 'to be restrained,' 'to be held back,' or 'to be stopped.' It is a compound verb formed from ἀνά (ana, 'up' or 'back') and στέλλω (stellō, 'to send' or 'to set'). In a sentence, it describes something that was prevented from moving forward or continuing.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Passive, 3rd Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G0389 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 5 — 6:211
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Nahum — 1:5
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.
- ἈΝΑΣΤΕΙΛΑΣ — having restrained, having held back, having checked, having stopped, having hindered
- ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΙ — restrain, hold back, check, hinder, suppress, prevent, turn back
- ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΤΑΙ — is restrained, is held back, is checked, is hindered, is prevented, is withdrawn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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