ἘΝΕΦΑΙΝΕΝ, ἐνεφαινεν
ENEPHAINEN, enephainen
Sounds Like: en-EH-fai-nen
Translations: was showing, was appearing, was manifesting, was revealing, was making clear, was displaying
From the root: ἘΜΦΑΙΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a verb meaning 'to show', 'to appear', 'to manifest', or 'to reveal'. It is the imperfect active indicative form, indicating a continuous or repeated action in the past. It is a compound word formed from 'ἐν' (in, among) and 'φαίνω' (to shine, to appear). It describes something that was being made visible or evident.
Inflection: Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G1718 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 17:48
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 3:16
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΜΦΑΙΝΩ.
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.
- ἘΜΦΑΙΝΕΙΝ — to show, to display, to reveal, to make manifest, to declare, to indicate
- ἘΜΦΑΙΝΟΝΤΑ — showing, manifesting, revealing, displaying, making visible, making known
- ἘΜΦΑΙΝΟΥΣΑ — showing, manifesting, revealing, displaying, appearing, making visible
- ἘΜΦΑΙΝΩΝ — showing, displaying, manifesting, revealing, making visible, appearing
- ἘΜΦΗΝΑΙ — to show, to make visible, to reveal, to appear, to manifest
- ἘΝΕΦΑΙΝΕ — he was appearing, it was appearing, he was showing, it was showing, he appeared, it appeared
- ἘΝΕΦΑΙΝΟΝ — they were appearing, they were showing, they were manifesting, they were revealing
- ἘΝΕΦΗΝΕ — showed, revealed, manifested, declared, made known
- ἘΝΕΦΗΝΕΝ — he showed, she showed, it showed, he appeared, she appeared, it appeared, he manifested, she manifested, it manifested, he revealed, she revealed, it revealed
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