ΖΩΓΡΗΣΑΙ, ζωγρησαι
ZŌGRĒSAI, zōgrēsai
Sounds Like: zoh-GREH-sai
Translations: to take alive, to catch alive, to capture, to preserve alive, to save, to take captive
From the root: ΖΩΓΡΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb that means to capture someone or something alive, often implying the preservation of life rather than destruction. It can also mean to save or preserve. It is used to describe the act of taking prisoners of war alive, or metaphorically, to 'catch' people for a purpose, such as in the sense of 'fishers of men'.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2222 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 8:11
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Joshua — 9:26
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΖΩΓΡΕΩ.
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.
- ἘΖΩΓΡΗΘΗΣΑΝ — they were taken alive, they were captured, they were caught
- ἘΖΩΓΡΗΜΕΝΟΙ — taken alive, captured, ensnared
- ἘΖΩΓΡΗΣΑΝ — they captured alive, they took alive, they took captive
- ἘΖΩΓΡΗΣΑΤΕ — you took alive, you captured, you preserved alive
- ἘΖΩΓΡΗΣΕΝ — to take alive, to capture, to preserve alive, to save alive
- ΕΖΩΓΡΗΜΕΝΟΙ — having been taken alive, having been captured alive, having been caught alive, having been taken captive
- ΖΩΓΡΕΩ — to catch alive, to take alive, to capture, to preserve life
- ΖΩΓΡΗΘΕΝΤΕΣ — captured alive, taken alive, caught alive
- ΖΩΓΡΗΘΕΝΤΩΝ — of those captured alive, of those taken alive, of those caught alive
- ΖΩΓΡΗΘΗΝΑΙ — to capture alive, to take alive, to take captive, to catch
- ΖΩΓΡΗΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be caught alive, will be taken alive, will be preserved alive
- ΖΩΓΡΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ — taking alive, capturing alive, catching alive, preserving alive
- ΖΩΓΡΗΣΑΣ — having taken alive, having captured alive, having preserved alive, having caught, having saved
- ΖΩΓΡΗΣΑΤΕ — capture, take alive, preserve alive, save alive
- ΖΩΓΡΗΣΕΤΕ — you will save alive, you will take alive, you will capture alive
- ΖΩΓΡΟΥΝΤΕΣ — taking alive, catching alive, capturing, catching, preserving alive
- ΖΩΓΡΟΥΣΙ — they catch alive, they take alive, they capture alive
- ΖΩΓΡΩΝ — catching alive, taking alive, preserving alive, capturing
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