ἈΠΟΣΦΑΤΤΟΝΤΕΣ, ἀποσφαττοντες
APOSPHATTONTES, aposphattontes
Sounds Like: ah-pos-FATT-ton-tes
Translations: slaughtering, slaying, butchering, killing
From the root: ἈΠΟΣΦΑΤΤΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'slaughtering' or 'killing'. It describes an action that is ongoing or happening at the same time as another action. It is a compound word formed from the prefix ἀπό (apo), meaning 'from' or 'away from', and the verb σφάττω (sphattō), meaning 'to slaughter' or 'to slay'. The prefix intensifies the action, implying a complete or decisive killing.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G616 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 3:8
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 9:191
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΟΣΦΑΤΤΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΤΤΕΙ — he slaughters, he kills, he cuts the throat, he sacrifices
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΤΤΕΤΑΙ — is slaughtered, is slain, is butchered, is killed
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΤΤΟΜΕΝΟΙ — being slaughtered, being slain, being butchered
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΤΤΟΝΤΑΣ — slaughtering, slaying, butchering
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΤΤΟΥΣΙΝ — they slaughter, they slay, they kill
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