ἈΣΤΡΑΠΑΙΣ, ἀστραπαις
ASTRAPAIS, astrapais
Sounds Like: as-tra-PAIS
Translations: (to) lightning, (to) a flash of lightning
From the root: ἈΣΤΡΑΠΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to lightning or a flash of lightning. It is used to describe a sudden, bright discharge of electricity in the atmosphere. In a sentence, it would indicate the object or recipient of an action related to lightning, such as 'to lightning' or 'by means of lightning'.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G796 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΤΡΑΠΗ.
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.
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΑΙ — lightning, flashes of lightning
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΑΣ — lightning, flashes of lightning
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΗ — lightning, a lightning flash, a flash, brightness
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΗΝ — lightning, a lightning flash, a flash of lightning
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΗΣ — of lightning, of a flash, of a gleam
- ἈΣΤΡΑΠΩΝ — of lightning, of flashes, of lightnings
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