ΔΟΡΥΦΟΡΟΥΝΤΑΣ, δορυφορουντας
DORYPHOROUNTAS, doryphorountas
Sounds Like: dor-yoo-fo-ROON-tas
Translations: guarding, escorting, attending, serving as a bodyguard
From the root: ΔΟΡΥΦΟΡΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from 'δόρυ' (dory), meaning 'spear', and 'φορέω' (phoreo), meaning 'to carry' or 'to bear'. It literally means 'to carry a spear' or 'to bear arms', and by extension, 'to serve as a bodyguard', 'to guard', or 'to escort'. It describes someone who is actively performing the duty of guarding or attending another, often in a military or protective capacity.
Inflection: Masculine, Accusative, Plural, Present, Active, Participle
Strong’s number: G1391 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 9 — 7:147
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΟΡΥΦΟΡΕΩ.
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.
- ΔΟΡΥΦΟΡΕΩ — to bear a spear, to be a bodyguard, to attend as a bodyguard, to be in attendance
- ΔΟΡΥΦΟΡΟΥΝΤΩΝ — of bodyguards, of attendants, of spear-bearers, of guards
- ΔΟΡΥΦΟΡΟΥΣΙ — they attend, they guard, they act as bodyguards, they escort
- ἘΔΟΡΥΦΟΡΕΙ — he was guarding, he was escorting, he was attending, he was acting as a bodyguard
- ἘΔΟΡΥΦΟΡΟΥΝ — they were guarding, they were escorting, they were attending, they were bodyguards
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