ἘΠΙΒΙΟΥΣ, ἐπιβιους
EPIBIOUS, epibious
Sounds Like: eh-pee-BEE-oos
Translations: living on, surviving, having survived, continuing to live
From the root: ΕΠΙΒΙΟΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle derived from the verb 'ἐπιβιόω' (epibioō), meaning 'to live on' or 'to survive'. As a participle, it functions like an adjective or adverb, describing an action that occurred before or at the same time as the main verb, often conveying the sense of 'having lived on' or 'while surviving'. It is a compound word formed from the preposition 'ἐπί' (epi), meaning 'upon' or 'in addition to', and 'βιόω' (bioō), meaning 'to live'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Aorist, Active, Participle
Strong’s number: G1982 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΒΙΟΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΕΒΙΩΣΕΝ — survived, lived on
- ἘΠΙΒΙΩΣΑΣ — having survived, having lived on, having outlived
- ἘΠΙΒΙΩΣΟΜΕΝ — we will survive, we will live on, we will outlive
- ΕΠΕΒΙΩ — I survived, I lived on, I outlived
- ΕΠΙΒΙΟΥΣ — having survived, surviving, living on, having lived on
- ΕΠΙΒΙΟΩ — to survive, to live on, to outlive
- ΕΠΙΒΙΩ — to survive, to live on, to outlive
- ΕΠΙΒΙΩΣΟΜΕΝ — we will survive, we will live on, we will live after
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