ΔΙΕΤΕΙΝΕΝ, διετεινεν
DIETEINEN, dieteinen
Sounds Like: dee-eh-TEI-nen
Translations: stretched out, extended, insisted, persisted
From the root: ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an inflected form of the verb 'διατείνω' (diateinō), meaning 'to stretch out, extend, or insist'. It describes an action that was completed in the past, indicating someone or something stretched, extended, or strongly asserted something. It can be used in contexts where physical extension is implied, or where a person is persistent or emphatic in their speech or actions.
Inflection: Aorist Indicative, Active Voice, Third Person Singular
Strong’s number: G1295 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:34
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
- ΔΙΑΤΕΙΝΟΥΣΑ — extending, stretching, reaching, straining, exerting
- 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
- 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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