ἘΦΩΛΕΥΟΝ, ἐφωλευον
EPHŌLEUON, ephōleuon
Sounds Like: eh-PHOH-ley-ohn
Translations: they were nesting, they were lodging, they were making a den, they were dwelling
From the root: ΦΩΛΕΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb in the imperfect tense, meaning 'to nest', 'to make a den', 'to lodge', or 'to dwell'. It describes an ongoing or repeated action in the past, indicating that a group of subjects were in the process of making a home or dwelling in a particular place.
Inflection: Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G5393 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 14 — 15:423
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΩΛΕΥΩ.
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.
- ΦΩΛΕΥΩ — to nest, to make a nest, to lodge, to dwell, to make a lair, to have a place to lay one's head
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