ἘΔΟΛΙΟΥΣΑΝ, ἐδολιουσαν
EDOLIOUSAN, edoliousan
Sounds Like: eh-doh-LEE-oo-san
Translations: they were deceitful, they dealt deceitfully, they practiced deceit
From the root: ΔΟΛΙΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning 'to deal deceitfully' or 'to practice deceit'. It describes an action of using cunning or trickery. In this form, it indicates that a group of people (they) were engaged in such deceitful behavior in the past.
Inflection: Imperfect, Indicative, Active, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G1388 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 27:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Romans — 3:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΟΛΙΟΩ.
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.
- ΔΟΛΙΟΥΣΑΝ — deceiving, acting deceitfully, dealing deceitfully, using deceit
- ΔΟΛΙΟΥΣΘΑΙ — to deal deceitfully, to act treacherously, to be deceitful, to use deceit
- ΔΟΛΙΟΥΣΙΝ — they deceive, they act deceitfully, they deal treacherously
- ΕΔΟΛΙΟΥΣΑΝ — they were deceiving, they were acting deceitfully, they were dealing treacherously
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