ἘΞΗΡΠΑΣΕΝ, ἐξηρπασεν
EXĒRPASEN, exērpasen
Sounds Like: eks-ahr-PAH-sen
Translations: snatched away, rescued, plucked out, seized, carried off
From the root: ΕΞΑΡΠΑΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the preposition ἐκ (ek, meaning 'out of') and the verb ἁρπάζω (harpadzō, meaning 'to seize' or 'to snatch'). It means to snatch or carry away suddenly and forcibly, often implying a rescue or a violent removal. It can be used to describe someone being rescued from danger or something being violently taken from a place.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, Third Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G1855 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 5:86
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΞΑΡΠΑΖΩ.
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.
- ἘΞΑΡΠΑΖΟΥΣΙ — they snatch away, they seize, they plunder, they carry off, they take by force
- ἘΞΑΡΠΑΣΑΙ — to snatch away, to rescue, to seize, to pluck out
- ἘΞΑΡΠΑΣΑΝΤΩΝ — of having snatched away, of having seized, of having plundered
- ἘΞΑΡΠΑΣΑΣΑ — having snatched away, having seized, having rescued, having plundered
- ἘΞΑΡΠΑΣΩ — I will snatch away, I will rescue, I will deliver, I will seize
- ἘΞΗΡΠΑΖΟΝ — they were snatching away, they were seizing, they were plundering, they were carrying off
- ΕΞΑΡΠΑΖΩ — to snatch away, to rescue, to seize, to carry off by force
- ΕΞΑΡΠΑΣΑΙ — to snatch away, to seize, to rescue, to carry off
- ΕΞΗΡΠΑΣΑ — I snatched away, I rescued, I seized, I carried off
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