ΑΠΟΣΒΕΣΑΙ, αποσβεσαι
APOSBESAI, aposbesai
Sounds Like: ah-pos-BEH-sai
Translations: to extinguish, to quench, to put out, to suppress, to abolish, to destroy
From the root: ΑΠΟΣΒΕΝΝΥΜΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist active infinitive form of the verb 'αποσβέννυμι' (aposbennymi), meaning 'to extinguish' or 'to quench'. It can refer to putting out a fire, quenching thirst, or metaphorically suppressing or abolishing something, like a feeling or a custom. It is used to express the action of bringing something to an end or causing it to cease.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0001 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΠΟΣΒΕΝΝΥΜΙ.
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.
- ἈΠΟΣΒΕΝΝΥΝΤΕΣ — quenching, extinguishing, putting out
- ἈΠΟΣΒΕΣΘΗΝΑΙ — to be quenched, to be extinguished, to be put out
- ἈΠΟΣΒΕΣΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be extinguished, will be quenched, will be put out
- ἈΠΟΣΒΕΣΩΜΕΝ — we will extinguish, let us extinguish, we will quench, let us quench
- ΑΠΟΣΒΕΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be quenched, will be extinguished, will be put out
- ΑΠΟΣΒΕΝΝΥΜΙ — to extinguish, to quench, to put out, to suppress
- ΑΠΟΣΒΕΝΝΥΤΑΙ — is quenched, is extinguished, is put out, is suppressed
- ΑΠΟΣΒΕΣΕΙ — he will quench, he will extinguish, he will put out, he will suppress
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