ἈΝΕΣΤΕΛΛΟΝΤΟ, ἀνεστελλοντο
ANESTELLONTO, anestellonto
Sounds Like: ah-nes-TEL-lon-toh
Translations: they were being restrained, they were holding back, they were restraining themselves, they were being held back
From the root: ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an inflected form of the verb ἀναστέλλω (anastellō), which means to send back, to hold back, to restrain, or to check. In this form, it indicates an ongoing action in the past, specifically in the imperfect tense, middle or passive voice, and third person plural. Therefore, it describes a situation where a group of people or things were in the process of being restrained, or were restraining themselves.
Inflection: Imperfect, Indicative, Middle or Passive, Third Person Plural
Strong’s number: G0395 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 7:13
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- ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΤΑΙ — is restrained, is held back, is checked, is hindered, is prevented, is withdrawn
- ἈΝΕΣΤΑΛΗ — was restrained, was held back, was stopped, was checked, was withdrawn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
- ἨΝἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΙΝ — to restrain, to hold back, to check, to hinder, to prevent
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