ΔΕΙΛΑΝΔΡΗΣΑΙ, δειλανδρησαι
DEILANDRĒSAI, deilandrēsai
Sounds Like: day-lan-DRAY-sai
Translations: to act cowardly, to show cowardice, to be a coward
From the root: ΔΕΙΛΑΝΔΡΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to act in a cowardly manner or to show cowardice. It is a compound word formed from 'δειλός' (deilos), meaning 'cowardly' or 'fearful', and 'ἀνήρ' (anēr), meaning 'man' or 'male', combined with the verb ending. It describes the action of someone behaving like a coward, often in the face of danger or challenge.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 10:14
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΕΙΛΑΝΔΡΕΩ.
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.
- ΔΕΙΛΑΝΔΡΗΣΩΜΕΝ — let us be cowardly, let us be faint-hearted, let us show cowardice
- ΔΕΙΛΑΝΔΡΟΥΝΤΕΣ — being cowardly, acting cowardly, being faint-hearted, acting faint-hearted
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