ἘΠΙΣΤΕΛΛΟΝΤΕΣ, ἐπιστελλοντες
EPISTELLONTES, epistellontes
Sounds Like: ep-ee-STEL-lon-tes
Translations: writing, sending a letter, instructing by letter, those who write, those who send a letter
From the root: ἘΠΙΣΤΕΛΛΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'writing' or 'sending a letter'. It describes an ongoing action of communicating by written means, often with the nuance of giving instructions or commands through a letter. It can be translated as 'those who write' or 'by writing', depending on the context.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G1989 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 13 — 5:170
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΙΣΤΕΛΛΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΕΣΤΕΙΛΑΜΕΝ — we sent, we wrote, we instructed
- ἘΠΕΣΤΕΛΛΕΝ — was sending a message, was writing, was commanding, was instructing
- ἘΠΙΣΤΕΙΛΑΝΤΑ — having sent, having written, having sent a message, having sent a letter
- ἘΠΙΣΤΕΛΛΩΝ — sending, dispatching, writing, a sender, a writer
- ΤΩΝἘΠΕΣΤΑΛΜΕΝΩΝ — of the things sent, of the things commanded, of the things written, of the things instructed
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