ἘΦΙΛΟΤΕΧΝΗΣΕ, ἐφιλοτεχνησε
EPHILOTECHNĒSE, ephilotechnēse
Sounds Like: eh-fee-loh-TEKH-nee-seh
Translations: showed skill, displayed artistry, constructed skillfully, built artfully
From the root: ΦΙΛΟΤΕΧΝΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the third person singular aorist active indicative form of the verb ΦΙΛΟΤΕΧΝΕΩ (philotechneō). It means to show skill, to display artistry, or to construct something skillfully or artfully. It describes an action completed in the past by a single subject, emphasizing the skillful or artistic manner in which something was made or done.
Inflection: Third Person, Singular, Aorist, Active, Indicative
Strong’s number: G5384 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 3:70
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΙΛΟΤΕΧΝΕΩ.
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.
- ΦΙΛΟΤΕΧΝΕΙ — to love art, to be fond of art, to be artistic, to be skillful, to be clever, to be cunning, to act artfully, to act skillfully
- ΦΙΛΟΤΕΧΝΩΣ — skillfully, artistically, ingeniously, with love of art
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