ἘΠΑΛΗΘΕΥΣΑΙ, ἐπαληθευσαι
EPALĒTHEUSAI, epalētheusai
Sounds Like: ep-ah-lee-THEV-sai
Translations: to confirm, to make true, to verify, to prove true
From the root: ἈΛΗΘΕΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from the prefix ἘΠΙ- (epi-), meaning 'upon' or 'in addition to', and the verb ἈΛΗΘΕΥΩ (alētheuō), meaning 'to speak the truth' or 'to be true'. Therefore, ἘΠΑΛΗΘΕΥΣΑΙ means to confirm or verify something as true, or to make something true. It implies an action that brings about or establishes truth.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2040 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 8:72
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΛΗΘΕΥΩ.
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.
- ἈΛΗΘΕΥΕΙΝ — to speak the truth, to be truthful, to tell the truth, to deal truthfully
- ἈΛΗΘΕΥΕΤΕ — speak the truth, tell the truth, be truthful
- ἈΛΗΘΕΥΣΑΙΕΝ — they might speak the truth, they might be truthful, they might be true
- ἈΛΗΘΕΥΣΟΝ — speak the truth, be truthful, tell the truth
- ἈΛΗΘΕΥΩΝ — speaking the truth, being truthful, telling the truth, a truth-speaker
- ἘΠΗΛΗΘΕΥΣΑΝ — they spoke the truth, they told the truth, they were truthful
- ἨΛΗΘΕΥΣΕ — he spoke the truth, she spoke the truth, it spoke the truth, he was truthful, she was truthful, it was truthful
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