ἘΓΚΕΙΜΕΝΩΝ, ἐγκειμενων
EGKEIMENŌN, egkeimenōn
Sounds Like: eng-KEE-meh-nohn
Translations: pressing upon, lying in, lying on, urging, insisting, being urgent, being laid upon
From the root: ΕΓΚΕΙΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a participle derived from the verb 'ἐγκείμαι', meaning 'to lie in, to lie on, to press upon, or to be urgent'. It describes an action of pressing or being laid upon, often with a sense of insistence or urgency. It can refer to something that is physically pressing or to a persistent request or demand.
Inflection: Present, Middle/Passive, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G1759 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 5:13
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.
- ἘΓΚΕΙΜΕΝΗΣ — of pressing upon, of insisting, of lying in, of being laid upon
- 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
- 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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