ἈΣΤΟΧΗΣΑΝΤΙ, ἀστοχησαντι
ASTOCHĒSANTI, astochēsanti
Sounds Like: as-to-KHE-san-tee
Translations: having missed the mark, having erred, having gone astray, having failed, having deviated, to miss the mark, to err, to go astray, to fail, to deviate
From the root: ἈΣΤΟΧΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the dative singular masculine or neuter aorist active participle of the verb ἀστοχέω (astocheō). It describes an action of 'missing the mark' or 'erring' that has already occurred. It is often used in a figurative sense to mean to deviate from truth or duty, or to fail in an endeavor. In a sentence, it would describe someone or something that has committed an error or gone astray, and because it is dative, it indicates the indirect object or the means/instrument of an action.
Inflection: Participle, Aorist, Active, Dative, Singular, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G0795 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 2:33
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΤΟΧΕΩ.
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.
- ἈΣΤΟΧΕΙ — miss the mark, err, fail, go astray, deviate
- ἈΣΤΟΧΗΣΑΝΤΑΣ — having missed the mark, having erred, having deviated, having gone astray
- ἈΣΤΟΧΟΥΝΤΙ — (to) one missing the mark, (to) one erring, (to) one deviating
- ἈΣΤΟΧΟΥΝΤΩΝ — (of) those missing the mark, (of) those erring, (of) those straying, (of) those deviating
- ἈΣΤΟΧΟΥΣΙΝ — they miss the mark, they err, they deviate, they go astray
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