ἘΣΘΙΟΝ, ἐσθιον
ESTHION, esthion
Sounds Like: ess-THEE-on
Translations: eating, while eating, one who eats
From the root: ἘΣΘΙΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'eating' or 'one who eats'. It describes an ongoing action of consuming food. It can function adjectivally, modifying a noun, or substantively, acting as a noun itself. For example, it could describe 'the man eating' or simply 'the one eating'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter, Present, Active, Participle
Strong’s number: G2068 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 6:120
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 31:5
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΣΘΙΩ.
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.
- ἘΔΩΝ — eating, having eaten
- ἘΣΘΙΕΙΣ — you eat, you are eating
- ἘΣΘΙΕΣΘΑΙ — to be eaten, to eat
- ἘΣΘΙΗ — eat, may eat, should eat, to eat
- ἘΣΘΙΗΤΕ — eat, you eat
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΑ — eating, devouring, consuming, those who are eating, the ones eating
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΑΣ — eating, those eating, who are eating
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΕΣ — eating, those eating, while eating
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΟΣ — (of) eating, (of) one eating, (of) him eating
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΩΝ — of eating, of those eating, of them eating
- ἘΣΘΙΩ — eat, consume, devour, partake
- ἘΣΘΟΝΤΩΝ — of eating, of those eating, of having eaten, of those having eaten
- ἨΣΘΙΟΜΕΝ — we were eating, we ate
- ἨΣΘΙΟΝ — they were eating, they ate, I was eating, I ate
- ἨΣΘΟΣΑΝ — they ate, they did eat
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