ἈΠΑΤΩΝ, ἀπατων
APATŌN, apatōn
Sounds Like: ah-pah-TON
Translations: deceiving, misleading, beguiling
From the root: ἈΠΑΤΑΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'deceiving' or 'misleading'. It describes someone or something that is actively engaged in the act of deception. It can function as an adjective modifying a noun, or as a substantive (acting as a noun) referring to 'the one who deceives' or 'those who deceive'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Present, Active, Participle
Strong’s number: G0538 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Jeremiah — 4:10
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 6 — 2:1
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- James — 1:26
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΑΤΑΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΑΤΑ — deceive, mislead, trick, cheat
- ἈΠΑΤΑΣΘΑΙ — to deceive, to be deceived, to mislead, to be misled
- ἈΠΑΤΗΘΗ — to be deceived, to be led astray, to be cheated
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΑΝΤΑ — having deceived, one who deceived, a deceiver
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΟΝ — deceive, trick, beguile, mislead
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΩ — I will deceive, I will mislead, I will trick
- ἈΠΑΤΩΝΤΑΙ — they are deceived, they are misled, they are beguiled
- ἈΠΑΤΩΝΤΕΣ — deceiving, misleading, cheating, those deceiving, deceivers
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