2001 Translation

ATYCHĒSAI, atychēsai

Sounds Like: ah-too-KHE-sai

Translations: to be unlucky, to fail, to suffer misfortune, to be unfortunate, to meet with misfortune

From the root: ΑΤΥΧΕΩ

Part of Speech: Verb

Explanation: This word describes the state of experiencing bad luck or misfortune. It is used to indicate that someone has failed in an endeavor or suffered an unfortunate event. It is the infinitive form of the verb 'to be unlucky'.

Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive

Strong’s number: G0800 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 4 — 1:8
• Book 16 — 2:24

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΤΥΧΕΩ.

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.

• ΑΤΥΧΕΙ — he is unfortunate, he fares ill, he is unsuccessful, he is unlucky
• ΑΤΥΧΕΩ — to be unfortunate, to be unlucky, to fare ill, to suffer misfortune

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