ΔΙΕΤΑΦΡΕΥΘΗ, διεταφρευθη
DIETAPHREUTHĒ, dietaphreuthē
Sounds Like: dee-eh-tah-FREV-thee
Translations: was trenched, was dug out, was excavated
From the root: ΤΑΦΡΕΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb in the aorist passive indicative, meaning 'was trenched' or 'was dug out'. It describes an action that was completed in the past, where something was excavated or had a trench dug around it. It implies that the action was performed upon the subject, rather than by the subject.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Passive, 3rd Person, Singular
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 4:15
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΤΑΦΡΕΥΩ.
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.
- ἘΚΤΕΤΑΦΡΕΥΤΟ — it had been trenched, it had been ditched, it had been fortified with a ditch
- ΤΕΤΑΦΡΕΥΤΑΙ — it has been trenched, it has been surrounded with a ditch, it has been fortified with a ditch
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