ἈΦΑΙΡΕΘΕΝΤΕΣΜΕΤΕΦΕΡΟΝ, ἀφαιρεθεντεσμετεφερον
APHAIRETHENTESMETEPHERON, aphairethentesmetepheron
Sounds Like: ah-fai-re-THEN-tes-me-TEH-feh-ron
Translations: having been taken away, they were transferring; having been removed, they were carrying over
From the root: ἈΦΑΙΡΈΩ, ΜΕΤΑΦΈΡΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound word formed by the concatenation of two verbs: the aorist passive participle of ἀφαιρέω (aphairéō), meaning 'to take away' or 'to remove', and the imperfect active indicative of μεταφέρω (metaphérō), meaning 'to transfer' or 'to carry over'. The combined meaning indicates that a group of people, having been removed or taken away from something, were in the process of transferring or carrying something else. The first part describes a completed action that precedes the ongoing action of the second part.
Inflection: First part: Aorist Passive Participle, Nominative Plural, Masculine. Second part: Imperfect Active Indicative, Third Person Plural.
Strong’s numbers: G0851 (Lookup on BibleHub), G3329 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 7:12
From the same root
No other words from the same root, ἈΦΑΙΡΈΩ, ΜΕΤΑΦΈΡΩ, appear in our texts.
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