ἘΠΙΣΚΗΨΑΝΤΕΣ, ἐπισκηψαντες
EPISKĒPSANTES, episkēpsantes
Sounds Like: ep-ee-SKEHP-san-tes
Translations: having fallen upon, having rushed upon, having attacked, having assailed
From the root: ΕΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the action of falling or rushing upon something or someone, often with hostile intent, implying an attack or an assault. It is a compound word formed from 'ἐπί' (upon, over) and 'σκήπτω' (to lean, to fall).
Inflection: Aorist Active Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G1943 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 3:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΕΣΚΗΠΤΕ — was enjoining, was commanding, was charging, was imposing, was inflicting
- ἘΠΕΣΚΗΨΕ — fell upon, rushed upon, attacked, inflicted, imposed
- ἘΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩΝ — charging, commanding, enjoining, laying upon, inflicting, bringing upon
- ἘΠΙΣΚΗΨΕΙ — to charge, to enjoin, to command, to impose, to inflict
- ΕΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩ — to fall upon, to rush upon, to attack, to inflict, to impose
- ΕΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩΝ — visiting, overseeing, looking upon, inspecting, to visit, to oversee, to look upon, to inspect
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