ἘΚΛΕΞΑΜΕΝΟΙ, ἐκλεξαμενοι
EKLEXAMENOI, eklexamenoi
Sounds Like: ek-LEK-sah-me-noy
Translations: having chosen, having selected, having picked out
From the root: ἘΚΛΕΓΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a participle derived from the verb 'eklegō', meaning 'to choose out, select, or pick out'. As a participle, it describes an action that has already occurred, functioning like an adjective or adverb in a sentence. It is often used to indicate a completed action of choosing or selecting, such as 'those who have chosen' or 'having been chosen'. It is a compound word formed from 'ek' (out of) and 'legō' (to say, but here related to gathering or picking).
Inflection: Aorist, Middle Voice, Masculine, Nominative, Plural
Strong’s number: G1586 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 17:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΚΛΕΓΩ.
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.
- ἘΚΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΟΙ — choosing, selecting, picking out, electing
- ἘΚΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΟΙΣ — to those choosing, to those selecting, to those picking out, to those electing, to those chosen, to those selected, to those picked out, to those elected
- ἘΚΛΕΛΕΓΜΕΝΗ — chosen, elect, selected, a chosen one, an elect one
- ἘΚΛΕΛΕΓΜΕΝΟΙ — chosen, elect, selected, picked out, a chosen one, the chosen ones
- ἘΚΛΕΛΕΓΜΕΝΟΣ — chosen, elect, selected, a chosen one, an elect one
- ἘΚΛΕΛΕΓΜΕΝΟΥΣ — chosen, elect, selected, the chosen ones, the elect
- ἘΚΛΕΛΕΓΜΕΝΩΝ — of the chosen, of the elect, of the selected
- ἘΚΛΕΞΑΜΕΝΟΝ — chosen, having chosen, having picked out, having selected
- ἘΚΛΕΞΑΣ — having chosen, having selected, having picked out
- ἘΞΕΛΕΞΕΝ — chose, selected, picked out
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