ἘΠΙΛΕΙΠΟΥΣΑΝ, ἐπιλειπουσαν
EPILEIPOUSAN, epileipousan
Sounds Like: eh-pee-LEH-poo-san
Translations: failing, lacking, running out, ceasing, leaving behind, abandoning
From the root: ΕΠΙΛΕΙΠΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle of the verb ΕΠΙΛΕΙΠΩ, meaning 'to fail, to run out, to cease, to be lacking, to abandon'. It describes something that is in the process of failing or becoming deficient. It is a compound word formed from the preposition ΕΠΙ (upon, over) and the verb ΛΕΙΠΩ (to leave, to lack).
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1955 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 9:63
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΛΕΙΠΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΕΛΕΙΠΟΝ — failed, were failing, ran out, were running out, were lacking, were wanting
- ἘΠΕΛΙΠΕΝ — failed, lacked, ran out, ceased, was wanting
- ἘΠΙΛΕΙΠΕΙ — fails, lacks, runs short, is wanting, is insufficient
- ἘΠΙΛΕΙΠΟΙ — fail, lack, be wanting, run short, be insufficient
- ἘΠΙΛΕΙΠΟΝΤΑ — failing, lacking, running short, being insufficient, leaving behind
- ἘΠΙΛΕΙΠΟΝΤΑΣ — failing, lacking, running short, becoming exhausted, being deficient
- ἘΠΙΛΕΙΠΟΝΤΩΝ — failing, lacking, running short, giving out, ceasing, of failing
- ἘΠΙΛΕΙΨΟΝΤΟΣ — failing, running out, ceasing, lacking, of failing, of running out, of ceasing, of lacking
- ἘΠΙΛΕΛΟΙΠΟΤΩΝ — of those who were left, of those who remained, of those who had failed, of those who had run out
- ἘΠΙΛΕΛΟΙΠΥΙΑΣ — of failing, of lacking, of being exhausted, of being left behind, of being insufficient
- ἘΠΙΛΙΠΟΝΤΟΣ — failing, having failed, running out, having run out, lacking, having lacked, becoming exhausted, having become exhausted
- ΕΠΙΛΕΙΠΩ — to fail, to cease, to run short, to be wanting, to be lacking, to be deficient
- ΕΠΙΛΕΙΨΙΣ — failure, a failure, defect, a defect, lack, a lack, want, a want, deficiency, a deficiency
- ΕΠΙΛΙΠΟΝ — failed, ran out, was lacking, was left, was wanting, was exhausted, was finished
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