ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΟΥΣ, ἐπισφαλους
EPISPHALOUS, episphalous
Sounds Like: ep-is-fa-LOOS
Translations: dangerous, perilous, unsafe, hazardous, a dangerous thing
From the root: ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is unstable, precarious, or likely to cause harm or failure. It is used to characterize situations, conditions, or actions that carry a significant risk. For example, it could describe a dangerous journey or a perilous situation.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G2078 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 27:9
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΗΣ.
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.
- ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΕΙΣ — dangerous, unsafe, perilous, precarious, uncertain, unstable, risky
- ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΕΣ — dangerous, perilous, unsafe, precarious, risky
- ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΕΣΤΕΡΟΝ — more dangerous, more precarious, more unstable, a more dangerous thing
- ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΗ — dangerous, perilous, risky, precarious, unstable, insecure
- ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΩΣ — precariously, dangerously, uncertainly, unsteadily, insecurely
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΕΙΣ — dangerous, unsafe, perilous, precarious, uncertain, unstable
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΕΣ — dangerous, unsafe, precarious, unstable, a dangerous thing, an unsafe thing
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΗΣ — unstable, dangerous, perilous, precarious, slippery, insecure
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΙΣ — dangerous, unsafe, precarious, unstable, slippery, uncertain
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΟΥΣ — of uncertain, of dangerous, of perilous, of unstable, of slippery
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΩΣ — precariously, dangerously, uncertainly, insecurely, unsafely
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