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ΔΕΣΠΟΤΑΙ, δεσποται

DESPOTAI, despotai

Sounds Like: des-PO-tai

Translations: masters, lords, owners

From the root: ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a master, lord, or owner, someone who holds authority or control over others, such as servants or slaves. It is used to describe a person in a position of power or dominion. In a sentence, it would typically function as the subject or object, indicating those who possess authority.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G1203 (Lookup on BibleHub)


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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, ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΣ.

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.

  • ἈΔΕΣΠΟΤΩΣ — without a master, without a lord, without an owner, without a ruler, without control, without restraint, without authority, without a definite author, anonymously
  • ΑΔΕΣΠΟΤΟΣ — masterless, without a master, ownerless, without an owner, unclaimed, independent
  • ΔΕΠΟΤΟΥ — of a master, of the master, of a lord, of the lord, of an owner, of the owner
  • ΔΕΣΠΟΤ — Master, Lord, owner, ruler, a master, a Lord
  • ΔΕΣΠΟΤ' — O Master, O Lord, Master, Lord
  • ΔΕΣΠΟΤΑ — O Master, O Lord, O Sovereign
  • ΔΕΣΠΟΤΑΙΣ — to masters, to lords, to rulers, to owners
  • ΔΕΣΠΟΤΕΥΩ — to rule, to be master, to exercise lordship over, to have dominion over
  • ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗ — master, a master, lord, a lord, sovereign, a sovereign
  • ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΝ — master, a master, lord, a lord, owner, an owner
  • ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΣ — master, lord, owner, a master, a lord
  • ΔΕΣΠΟΤΟΥ — of a master, of a lord, of an owner, of a ruler
  • ΔΕΣΠΟΤΩΝ — of masters, of lords, of owners, of absolute rulers
  • ΣΠΟΤΗΝ — master, a master, lord, a lord, owner, an owner

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