ἈΠΟΓΝΟΝΤΑΣ, ἀπογνοντας
APOGNONTAS, apognontas
Sounds Like: ah-poh-GIG-non-tas
Translations: despairing, having despaired, giving up, abandoning hope
From the root: ΑΠΟΓΙΓΝΩΣΚΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a participle derived from the verb 'apogignōskō', meaning 'to despair' or 'to give up hope'. It describes someone who has lost all hope or has abandoned a situation as hopeless. It can be used to describe the state of a person or a group, indicating a complete lack of expectation for a positive outcome.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Masculine, Accusative, Plural
Strong’s number: G0630 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 13 — 7:99
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 12:9
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΠΟΓΙΓΝΩΣΚΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΕΓΝΩΚΕΙ — he had despaired, he had given up hope, he had lost hope
- ἈΠΟΓΝΟΝΤΑ — despairing, having despaired, giving up hope
- ἈΠΟΓΝΟΝΤΟΣ — despairing, having despaired, giving up, abandoning, renouncing
- ΑΠΟΓΙΓΝΩΣΚΩ — despair of, give up, renounce, abandon hope
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