ἘΝΤΥΧΟΝΤΕΣ, ἐντυχοντες
ENTYCHONTES, entychontes
Sounds Like: en-TY-khon-tes
Translations: having met, having encountered, having appealed to, having made petition, having interceded
From the root: ἘΝΤΥΓΧΆΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb (Participle)
Explanation: This word is the aorist active participle (masculine/neuter, nominative/accusative plural) of the verb ἘΝΤΥΓΧΆΝΩ. It is a compound word formed from the preposition ἘΝ (in, among) and the verb ΤΥΓΧΆΝΩ (to happen, to obtain). The combined meaning is to 'fall in with,' 'meet with,' 'encounter,' or 'to make petition to,' 'intercede for.' As a participle, it describes an action that has already occurred, often functioning adverbially to describe the circumstances or cause of the main verb's action.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Participle, Masculine or Neuter, Nominative or Accusative, Plural
Strong’s number: G1793 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 6:226
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 12:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΝΤΥΓΧΆΝΩ.
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.
- ἘΝΤΥΓΧΑΝΟΝ — interceding, pleading, petitioning, meeting, encountering, appealing, making petition
- ἘΝΤΥΧΟΙΕΝ — they might meet, they might appeal, they might intercede, they might approach
- ἘΝΤΥΧΟΝΤΑ — having met, having encountered, having appealed to, having approached, having fallen in with, having made petition
- ἘΝΤΥΧΟΝΤΟΣ — of having met, of having encountered, of having appealed, of having interceded
- ἘΝΤΥΧΩΝ — having met, having encountered, having appealed, having interceded, having pleaded
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