ἈΠΕΙΗ, ἀπειη
APEIĒ, apeiē
Sounds Like: ah-PEY-ay
Translations: may be absent, may be away, may be far off, may be gone
From the root: ἈΠΕΙΜΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the third person singular present active optative form of the verb 'ἀπεῖμι' (apeimi), meaning 'to be away' or 'to be absent'. It expresses a wish or a potential action, often translated with 'may' or 'might'. For example, it could be used in a sentence like 'May he be absent' or 'It might be away'.
Inflection: Third Person, Singular, Present, Active, Optative
Strong’s number: G0548 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 3:60
Justin Martyr
- First Apology of Justin Martyr — 21:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΕΙΜΙ.
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.
- ἈΠΕΙΝΑΙ — to be absent, to be away
- ἈΠΕΙΣΙΝ — goes away, departs, withdraws, returns
- ἈΠΕΣΤΙΝ — is away, is absent, is distant, is far from
- ἈΠΙΕΝΑΙ — to go away, to depart, to leave, to go off
- ἈΠΟΝΤΕΣ — absent, being away, those who are absent
- ἈΠΟΝΤΟΣ — of one being absent, of an absent one, of an absent person
- ἈΠΟΝΤΩΝ — of those being absent, of the absent ones
- ἈΠΟΥΣΑΝ — absent, away, a person who is absent, the absent one
- ἈΠΟΥΣΗΣ — (of) being absent, (of) absence, (of) one who is absent
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