ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙ, ἐπαινει
EPAINEI, epainei
Sounds Like: ep-AI-nei
Translations: praise, commend, approve, applaud
From the root: ἘΠΑΙΝΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This verb means to praise, commend, or approve of someone or something. It is often used to express admiration or to acknowledge good deeds or qualities. For example, one might praise a person for their wisdom or commend an action for its righteousness.
Inflection: Present, Indicative, Active, Third Person Singular
Strong’s number: G1867 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 12:3
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans — 5:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΑΙΝΕΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙΝ — to praise, to commend, to approve, to applaud
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙΣΘΑΙ — to praise, to commend, to approve, to applaud
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙΣΘΕ — you are praised, be praised, you are commended, be commended
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙΣΘΩ — let it be praised, let it be commended, let it be lauded
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙΤΑΙ — is praised, is commended, is lauded
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΙ — to praise, to commend, to approve
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΝΤΟΣ — (of) praising, (of) commending, (of) approving
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΝΤΩΝ — of those who praised, of those who commended, of those who approved
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΣ — having praised, after praising, when he praised, he praised
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΣΔΕ — having praised, and having praised, but having praised
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΤΩΣΑΝ — let them praise, they should praise
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΕΙ — he will praise, she will praise, it will praise
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΗΣ — you may praise, you might praise, you should praise, you would praise
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be praised, will be commended, will be lauded
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will praise, they will commend, they will approve
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΩ — I will praise, I will commend, I will approve
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΩ — praise, commend, approve, applaud
- ἘΠΑΙΝΟΥΝΤΑΣ — praising, commending, approving, those praising, those commending, those approving
- ἘΠΑΙΝΟΥΝΤΕΣ — praising, commending, approving
- ἘΠΑΙΝΟΥΣΙ — they praise, they commend, they approve
- ἘΠΑΙΝΩΝ — praising, commending, approving
- ἘΠΗΝΕΙ — he praised, she praised, it praised, he was praising, she was praising, it was praising
- ἘΠΗΝΕΣΑ — I praised, I commended, I approved
- ἘΠΗΝΕΣΕ — he praised, she praised, it praised, he commended, she commended, it commended
- ἘΠΗΝΕΣΕΝ — praised, commended, approved
- ἘΠΗΝΟΥΜΗΝ — I was being praised, I was praised, I was being commended, I was commended
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