ἈΠΟΤΡΕΠΟΝΤΕΣ, ἀποτρεποντες
APOTREPONTES, apotrepontes
Sounds Like: ah-po-TREH-pon-tes
Translations: turning away, averting, dissuading, turning back, diverting
From the root: ἈΠΟΤΡΕΠΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a participle meaning 'turning away' or 'averting'. It describes an action of causing someone or something to turn from a course or purpose, often implying dissuasion or prevention. It can be used to describe people who are actively engaged in turning others away or diverting something.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Masculine or Neuter, Plural, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G654 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 2:24
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΟΤΡΕΠΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΕΤΡΕΠΕΝ — was turning away, was averting, was dissuading, was preventing
- ἈΠΟΤΡΕΠΟΝΤΙ — (to) turning away, (to) averting, (to) dissuading
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