ἘΚΠΟΛΕΜΩΣΕΙΝ, ἐκπολεμωσειν
EKPOLEMŌSEIN, ekpolemōsein
Sounds Like: ek-po-le-MOH-sein
Translations: to make hostile, to make war, to provoke to war, to stir up to war
From the root: ΕΚΠΟΛΕΜΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist active infinitive of the verb ἐκπολεμόω (ekpolemoō). It is a compound word formed from the preposition ἐκ (ek), meaning 'out of' or 'from', and the verb πολεμόω (polemoō), meaning 'to make war'. Together, it means to stir up or provoke someone to war, or to make them hostile. It describes the act of initiating or escalating conflict.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G1626 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 10:74
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΚΠΟΛΕΜΟΩ.
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.
- ἘΚΠΕΠΟΛΕΜΩΜΕΝΗΣ — having been made hostile, having been made an enemy, having been provoked to war, having been exasperated
- ἘΚΠΕΠΟΛΕΜΩΜΕΝΟΝ — made hostile, made an enemy, provoked to war, enraged, hostile, an enemy
- ἘΚΠΕΠΟΛΕΜΩΜΕΝΩΝ — (of) those who have been made hostile, (of) those who have been provoked to war, (of) those who have been embittered
- ἘΚΠΟΛΕΜΩΣΑΣ — having made hostile, having stirred up war, having provoked to war, having made an enemy
- ἘΚΠΟΛΕΜΩΣΕΣΘΑΙ — to make hostile, to make an enemy of, to provoke to war, to stir up to war
- ἘΞΕΠΟΛΕΜΩΘΗ — was provoked to war, was made hostile, was at war
- ἘΞΕΠΟΛΕΜΩΘΗΣΑΝ — they were made hostile, they were made enemies, they were provoked to war, they were stirred up to war
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