ΕΚΑΜΜΥΣΑ, εκαμμυσα
EKAMMYSA, ekammysa
Sounds Like: eh-KAM-myoo-sah
Translations: I closed, I shut, I closed my eyes, I shut my eyes
From the root: ΚΑΜΜΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist active indicative, first person singular form of the verb 'καμμύω' (kammyo), meaning 'to close' or 'to shut', especially referring to the eyes. It describes a completed action in the past, indicating that 'I' performed the action of closing or shutting something, typically one's eyes. It is used to describe the act of deliberately closing one's eyes, often in a context of unwillingness to see or understand.
Inflection: First Person, Singular, Aorist, Active, Indicative
Strong’s number: G2576 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Acts of the Apostles — 28:27
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΜΜΥΩ.
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.
- ἘΚΑΜΜΥΣΑΝ — they closed, they shut, they shut their eyes
- ΕΚΑΜΜΥΣΑΝ — they closed their eyes, they shut their eyes
- ΚΑΜΜΥ — to close, to shut, to shut up, to shut the eyes, to close the eyes
- ΚΑΜΜΥΣΑΙ — to close the eyes, to shut the eyes
- ΚΑΜΜΥΣΕΙ — to close, to shut, to shut up, to close the eyes
- ΚΑΜΜΥΣΙ — to close the eyes, to shut the eyes, to wink
- ΚΑΜΜΥΩ — to close the eyes, to shut the eyes, to shut, to close
- ΚΑΜΜΥΩΝ — to close the eyes, to shut the eyes
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