2001 Translation

APEILĒ, apeilē

Sounds Like: ah-pee-LAY

Translations: threat, a threat, menace, a menace, (of) threat, (to) threat

From the root: ἈΠΕΙΛΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word is a feminine noun meaning 'threat' or 'menace'. It refers to a declaration of an intention to inflict harm or punishment in retaliation for something, or in advance of some action. It is often used in contexts describing divine judgment or human intimidation.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Genitive, or Dative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G547 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 14 — 9:181

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 11:20
• Book Five — 3:24
• Book Six — 4:38

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Psalms of Solomon — 17:27
• Odes — 6:12
• Proverbs — 17:10, 19:9, 20:2
• Job — 23:6
• Isaiah — 54:9
• Habakkuk — 3:12

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΕΙΛΗ.

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.

• ἈΠΕΙΛΑΙΣ — (to) threats, (with) threats, (by) threats
• ἈΠΕΙΛΑΣ — threats, menaces
• ἈΠΕΙΛΗΝ — threat, a threat, menace, a menace
• ἈΠΕΙΛΗΣ — of threat, of a threat, of menace, of a menace, of warning, of a warning

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