ΔΙΕΠΛΕΥΣΑΝ, διεπλευσαν
DIEPLEUSAN, diepleusan
Sounds Like: dee-EP-lev-san
Translations: they sailed through, they sailed across, they sailed over
From the root: ΔΙΑΠΛΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the preposition διά (dia), meaning 'through' or 'across', and the verb πλέω (pleō), meaning 'to sail'. Therefore, it means 'to sail through' or 'to sail across'. It describes the action of traversing a body of water by sailing from one side to another. It is used to indicate a completed action in the past.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person, Plural
Strong’s number: G1278 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 2:23
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΙΑΠΛΕΩ.
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.
- ΔΙΑΠΛΕΥΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having sailed through, having sailed across, having crossed over, having navigated
- ΔΙΑΠΛΕΥΣΑΣ — having sailed through, having sailed across, having sailed over
- ΔΙΑΠΛΕΥΣΕΙΝ — to sail through, to sail across, to cross by sea
- ΔΙΑΠΛΕΩ — to sail through, to sail across, to cross by ship
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