ἘΜΦΡΑΞΑΝΤΑΣ, ἐμφραξαντας
EMPHRAXANTAS, emphraxantas
Sounds Like: em-FRAX-an-tas
Translations: having stopped, having blocked, having closed, having shut, having muzzled
From the root: ἘΜΦΡΆΣΣΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle, meaning 'having stopped' or 'having blocked'. It describes an action completed in the past, with the participle acting as an adjective modifying a noun or pronoun, indicating that the subject performed the action of stopping or blocking something. It can be used to describe someone who has closed a mouth, stopped a flow, or blocked a path.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G1727 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 6:274
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΜΦΡΆΣΣΩ.
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.
- ἘΜΦΡΑΞΑΙ — to stop, to block, to shut up, to close, to obstruct
- ἘΜΦΡΑΞΑΝΤΟΣ — (of) having blocked, (of) having stopped, (of) having closed up, (of) having shut up, (of) having obstructed
- ἘΜΦΡΑΞΕΤΕ — you will stop up, you will block, you will close, you will shut up
- ἘΜΦΡΑΞΟΝ — stop up, block, shut up, silence
- ἘΜΦΡΑΤΤΟΜΕΝΟΙΣ — (to) those being stopped, (to) those being blocked, (to) those being closed, (to) those being shut
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