ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΟΝΤΕΣ, ἐμποδιζοντες
EMPODIZONTES, empodizontes
Sounds Like: em-po-DI-zon-tes
Translations: hindering, obstructing, impeding, preventing
From the root: ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'hindering' or 'obstructing'. It describes an action of putting obstacles in the way or preventing something from happening. It can be used to describe someone or something that is actively causing a delay or difficulty.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G1700 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:64
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 11 — 5:174
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΩ.
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.
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΕΙ — he hinders, she hinders, it hinders, he impedes, she impedes, it impedes, he prevents, she prevents, it prevents, he obstructs, she obstructs, it obstructs
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΕΙΝ — to hinder, to impede, to obstruct, to prevent
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΟΙΤΟ — might be hindered, might be impeded, might be obstructed
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΟΜΕΝΟΣ — hindered, being hindered, impeded, being impeded, prevented, being prevented
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΟΝΤΑΣ — hindering, impeding, obstructing, blocking, preventing
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΟΝΤΟΣ — hindering, impeding, obstructing, preventing, of hindering, of impeding, of obstructing, of preventing
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΟΝΤΩΝ — (of) hindering, (of) impeding, (of) obstructing, (of) preventing
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΖΟΥΣΗΣ — hindering, impeding, obstructing, preventing, of hindering, of impeding, of obstructing, of preventing
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΣΑΝΤΑΣ — having hindered, having impeded, having obstructed, those who hindered, those who impeded, those who obstructed
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΣΗΕ — hinder, impede, prevent, obstruct
- ἘΜΠΟΔΙΣΟΝ — hinder, impede, prevent, obstruct, restrain
- ἘΝΕΠΟΔΙΖΕ — he was hindering, he was impeding, he was obstructing
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