ἈΠΕΣΦΑΤΤΟΝΟΥ̓, ἀπεσφαττονοὐ
APESPHATTONOU, apesphattonou
Sounds Like: ah-pes-FATT-ton
Translations: they were slaughtering, they were slaying, they were butchering
From the root: ἈΠΟΣΦΑΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is likely a misspelling or a garbled form of the Koine Greek verb 'ἀπεσφάττον', which means 'they were slaughtering' or 'they were slaying'. It describes an action of killing, often violently or in large numbers, and is used in the imperfect tense, indicating a continuous or repeated action in the past. The 'οὐ' at the end is highly unusual and suggests a textual error.
Inflection: Third Person Plural, Imperfect Indicative, Active Voice
Strong’s number: G616 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Unknown: Yes
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 18:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΟΣΦΑΖΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΕΣΦΑΓΜΕΝΟΙ — slain, slaughtered, butchered, the slain ones
- ἈΠΕΣΦΑΞΑΝ — they slaughtered, they slew, they killed
- ἈΠΕΣΦΑΞΕΝ — he slaughtered, he slew, he killed
- ἈΠΕΣΦΑΤΤΕΝ — slaughtered, killed, butchered
- ἈΠΕΣΦΑΤΤΕΤΟ — was being slaughtered, was being slain, was being butchered
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΓΕΙΕΝ — might be slaughtered, might be slain, might be killed
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΓΕΝΤΩΝ — (of) having been slain, (of) those slain, (of) having been slaughtered
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΞΑΝΤΑΣ — having slaughtered, having slain, having butchered, having cut the throat
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΞΑΣ — slaughter, slay, kill, cut the throat of
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΞΕΙΝ — to slaughter, to slay, to kill
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