ΕΠΙΣΠΩΜΕΝΟΣ, επισπωμενος
EPISPŌMENOS, epispōmenos
Sounds Like: ep-is-POH-meh-nos
Translations: drawing over, pulling over, drawing on, pulling on, drawing back, pulling back, contracting, retracting, becoming uncircumcised
From the root: ΕΠΙΣΠΑΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a present middle/passive participle, masculine, nominative singular, derived from the verb 'epispáomai'. It describes the action of drawing or pulling something over, on, or back, often in the sense of contracting or retracting. In a specific context, it can refer to the act of drawing the foreskin back over the glans, effectively reversing circumcision.
Inflection: Present, Middle/Passive, Participle, Masculine, Nominative, Singular
Strong’s number: G1961 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΣΠΑΟΜΑΙ.
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.
- ἘΠΕΣΠΑΣΑΝΤΟ — they drew upon themselves, they brought upon themselves, they pulled, they dragged
- ἘΠΙΣΠΩΝΤΑΙ — they draw upon, they bring upon themselves, they attract, they contract
- ΕΠΙΣΠΑΣΑΜΕΝΟΙ — having drawn, having pulled, having contracted, having drawn over, having pulled over
- ΕΠΙΣΠΩΜΕΝΟΙ — drawing over, drawing on, pulling over, pulling on, having drawn over, having pulled on
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