ἘΜΠΕΠΑΙΧΑ, ἐμπεπαιχα
EMPEPAICHA, empepaicha
Sounds Like: em-pe-PAI-kha
Translations: I have mocked, I have ridiculed, I have made sport of, I have deceived
From the root: ἘΜΠΑΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a form of the verb 'empáizō', meaning to mock, ridicule, or make sport of someone. It is a compound word formed from 'en' (in, among) and 'paizō' (to play, to sport). In this specific form, 'empepaicha' indicates a completed action in the past with continuing results in the present, meaning 'I have mocked' or 'I have ridiculed'. It describes an action of treating someone with contempt or making them an object of scorn.
Inflection: Perfect Active Indicative, 1st Person Singular
Strong’s number: G1702 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 10:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΜΠΑΙΖΩ.
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.
- ἘΜΠΑΙΖΕΙ — to mock, to make sport of, to ridicule, to insult, to play with
- ἘΜΠΑΙΖΕΙΝ — to mock, to make sport of, to ridicule, to scoff at, to delude, to deceive
- ἘΜΠΑΙΖΟΝΤΕΣ — mocking, making sport of, ridiculing, deriding, scoffing at, playing with
- ἘΜΠΑΙΖΩ — mock, make fun of, ridicule, scoff at, make sport of, deceive, delude
- ἘΜΠΑΙΞΑΙ — to mock, to ridicule, to make sport of, to scoff at
- ἘΜΠΑΙΞΑΣ — having mocked, having ridiculed, having made sport of, having scoffed at
- ἘΜΠΑΙΞΟΥΣΙΝ — they will mock, they will make fun of, they will ridicule, they will scoff at
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