ἘΠΕΓΕΛΩΝ, ἐπεγελων
EPEGELŌN, epegelōn
Sounds Like: eh-peh-GEH-lohn
Translations: they were laughing at, they ridiculed, they mocked
From the root: ΓΕΛΑΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the preposition ἐπί (epi, meaning 'upon' or 'at') and the verb γελάω (gelaō, meaning 'to laugh'). It means to laugh at someone or something, often with a sense of derision or mockery. It describes an action that was ongoing in the past.
Inflection: Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person, Plural
Strong’s number: G1945 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Tobit — 2:8
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΕΛΑΩ.
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.
- ΓΕΛΑ — laugh, to laugh, you laugh
- ΓΕΛΑΛΗΣΑΙ — to laugh, to mock, to ridicule
- ΓΕΛΑΣΑΙ — to laugh, to smile
- ΓΕΛΑΣΑΝΤΟΣ — of having laughed, of one who laughed, of laughing
- ΓΕΛΑΣΑΣ — laughing, having laughed
- ΓΕΛΑΣΑΣΑ — having laughed, she having laughed, when she laughed, after she laughed
- ΓΕΛΑΣΕΙΟΥΣΙΝ — they will wish to laugh, they will be inclined to laugh
- ΓΕΛΑΣΕΙΣ — you will laugh
- ΓΕΛΑΣΕΤΑΙ — will laugh, will mock, will deride
- ΓΕΛΑΣΕΤΕ — you will laugh
- ΓΕΛΑΣΗ — you may laugh, he may laugh, she may laugh, it may laugh
- ΓΕΛΑΣΟΜΑΙ — I will laugh, I shall laugh
- ΓΕΛΑΣΟΜΕ — we will laugh, we shall laugh
- ΓΕΛΑΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they will laugh, they will mock, they will ridicule
- ΓΕΛΑΣΩ — I will laugh, I shall laugh
- ΓΕΛΑΩ — to laugh, to mock, to ridicule
- ΓΕΛΙΑΙ — laughter, laughters, a laugh, a laughter
- ΓΕΛΟΙΩ — I laugh, I smile
- ΓΕΛΟΝ — to laugh, to mock, to ridicule
- ΓΕΛΩΜΕΝΟΣ — being laughed at, ridiculed, mocked
- ΓΕΛΩΝΤΕΣ — laughing, those who laugh, to laugh
- ἘΓΕΛΑΣΑ — I laughed
- ἘΓΕΛΑΣΑΝ — they laughed, they did laugh
- ἘΓΕΛΑΣΑΣ — you laughed
- ἘΓΕΛΑΣΕ — he laughed, she laughed, it laughed
- ἘΓΕΛΑΣΕΝ — laughed
- ἘΓΕΛΑΤΟ — he was laughing, she was laughing, it was laughing, he was mocked, she was mocked, it was mocked
- ἘΚΓΕΛΑΣΗ — you will laugh at, you will deride, you will mock
- ΕΓΕΛΑΣΑΝ — they laughed, they did laugh
- ΕΠΕΓΕΛΑ — he laughed at, she laughed at, it laughed at, he mocked, she mocked, it mocked
- ΚΑΤΑΓΕΛΑΣΑΤΕ — you laughed at, you mocked, you ridiculed
- ΣΥΝΓΕΛΑΣΗΣ — laugh with, join in laughter
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