ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΟΥΣΑ, διατεινουσα
DIATEINOUSA, diateinousa
Sounds Like: dee-ah-TEH-noo-sah
Translations: extending, stretching, reaching, straining, exerting
From the root: ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'extending' or 'stretching out'. It describes something that is in the process of reaching or spreading over an area, or exerting itself. It can be used to describe physical extension, like a flame spreading, or a more abstract 'stretching' of effort or influence.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1287 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 13 — 5:139
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΩ.
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.
- ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΑΜΕΝΟΣ — stretching out, having stretched out, extending, having extended, exerting, having exerted, insisting, having insisted, striving, having striven
- ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΑΝΤΕΣ — stretching out, having stretched out, extending, straining, exerting
- ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΑΣ — stretching out, having stretched out, extending, having extended
- ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΕΙ — stretches, extends, reaches, aims, strives
- ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΟΜΕΝΟΣ — stretching out, extending, straining, exerting oneself, insisting, contending
- ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΟΝ — extending, stretching, reaching, straining
- ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΩ — to stretch out, to strain, to exert oneself, to insist, to reach, to extend
- ΔΙΑΤΕΝΕΙΣ — you stretch out, you extend, you prolong, you continue
- ΔΙΑΤΕΤΑΜΕΝΩΝ — of stretched out, of extended, of spread out, of strained
- ΔΙΑΤΙΝΕΙ — stretches out, extends, spreads out, reaches, exerts, strains
- ΔΙΕΤΕΙΝΑΝ — they stretched out, they extended, they spread out
- ΔΙΕΤΕΙΝΕΝ — stretched out, extended, insisted, persisted
- ΔΙΕΤΕΙΝΕΤΟ — he was stretching out, he was extending, he was exerting himself, he was persisting, he was insisting
- ΔΙΕΤΕΤΑΤΟ — was stretched out, extended, was spread out, stretched, extended
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