ἈΠΗΤΟΥΝ, ἀπητουν
APĒTOUN, apētoun
Sounds Like: ah-pay-TOON
Translations: they were demanding, they were asking for, they were requiring
From the root: ἈΠΑΙΤΈΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb in the imperfect tense, indicating an ongoing or repeated action in the past. It means to demand, ask for, or require something, often with a sense of entitlement or insistence. It describes an action that was happening continuously or habitually in the past.
Inflection: Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G0523 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 14:25
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΑΙΤΈΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΑΙΤΕΙΤΕ — demand, require, ask back, exact
- ἈΠΑΙΤΟΥΝΤΑΣ — demanding, requiring, asking back, claiming, exacting
- ἈΠΑΙΤΟΥΝΤΩΝ — of those demanding, of those requiring, of those asking back, of those exacting
- ἈΠΑΙΤΩΝ — demanding, requiring, asking back, claiming, exacting, a demander
- ἈΠΗΤΕΙΣ — you were demanding, you were asking back, you were requiring
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