ἘΓΚΕΙΜΕΝΗΣ, ἐγκειμενης
EGKEIMENĒS, egkeimenēs
Sounds Like: eng-KEE-meh-nays
Translations: of pressing upon, of insisting, of lying in, of being laid upon
From the root: ΕΓΚΕΙΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a participle derived from the verb 'ἐγκείμαι', meaning 'to lie in, to be laid upon, to press upon, to insist'. As a participle, it describes an action or state and functions like an adjective or adverb. In this genitive feminine singular form, it often indicates a cause, time, or circumstance, such as 'because she was insisting' or 'while she was pressing upon'.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1459 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΓΚΕΙΜΑΙ.
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.
- ἘΓΚΕΙΜΕΝΟΙ — lying in, pressing upon, urgent, insistent, a pressing upon, an insistence
- ἘΓΚΕΙΜΕΝΟΣ — lying in, pressing upon, urgent, pressing, a pressing, an urgent
- ἘΓΚΕΙΜΕΝΟΥ — of lying in, of being pressed upon, of being urgent, of being insistent, of being present
- ἘΓΚΕΙΜΕΝΩ — (to) one pressing upon, (to) one lying upon, (to) one urging, (to) one insisting, (to) one being urgent
- ἘΓΚΕΙΜΕΝΩΝ — pressing upon, lying in, lying on, urging, insisting, being urgent, being laid upon
- ἘΝΕΚΕΙΤΟ — was lying, was laid, was pressing, was urgent, was insistent, was devoted
- ΕΓΚΕΙΜΑΙ — to lie in, to press upon, to be urgent, to be instant, to be insistent
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