ἈΠΙΘΑΝΟΣ, ἀπιθανος
APITHANOS, apithanos
Sounds Like: ah-pee-THA-nos
Translations: improbable, incredible, unbelievable, a thing unbelievable
From the root: ἈΠΙΘΑΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This adjective describes something that is not credible, not plausible, or difficult to believe. It can refer to a statement, an event, or a person's character, indicating a lack of persuasiveness or trustworthiness. It is often used to describe something that is unlikely to be true or to happen.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0545 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 10:308
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΙΘΑΝΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΠΙΘΑΝΟΙΣ — to unbelievable, to incredible, to improbable, to unpersuasive, by unbelievable, by incredible, by improbable, by unpersuasive
- ἈΠΙΘΑΝΟΥΣ — unbelievable, incredible, improbable, unlikely
- ἈΠΙΘΑΝΩΣ — improbably, unlikely, incredibly, absurdly
- ἈΠΙΘΑΝΩΤΑΤΟΝ — most unlikely, most improbable, very unlikely, very improbable, a most unlikely thing, an extremely improbable thing
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