ἨΛΓΗΣΑ, ἠλγησα
ĒLGĒSA, ēlgēsa
Sounds Like: ayl-GAY-sa
Translations: I suffered, I felt pain, I grieved, I was distressed
From the root: ΑΛΓΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the experience of suffering, feeling pain, or being distressed. It is used to express both physical pain and emotional grief or sorrow. In a sentence, it would indicate that the subject of the verb underwent a painful or sorrowful experience.
Inflection: First Person, Singular, Aorist, Active, Indicative
Strong’s number: G0262 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 75:420
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΛΓΕΩ.
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.
- ἈΛΓΕΙΝΩΣ — painfully, grievously, distressingly, sorrowfully
- ἈΛΓΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having suffered, having been pained, having grieved, having been distressed, having been hurt
- ἈΛΓΟΥΝΤΩΝ — of those suffering, of those in pain, of those grieving
- ΑΛΓΕΙΝ — to feel pain, to suffer, to be in pain, to be distressed, to grieve
- ΑΛΓΕΩ — to suffer, to feel pain, to be in pain, to grieve, to be distressed
- ΑΛΓΗΣΕΙ — he will suffer, he will feel pain, he will grieve
- ΑΛΓΗΣΩ — I will suffer, I will feel pain, I will be in pain
- ΑΛΓΟΥΝ — they suffer, they feel pain, they ache, they are distressed
- ΑΛΓΟΥΝΤΑ — suffering, feeling pain, being in pain, enduring pain
- ΑΛΓΩΝ — suffering, in pain, grieving, distressed, being in anguish
- ΕΠΑΝΓΕΛΤΕΡΟΝ — more painful, more grievous, more distressing
- ἨΛΓΕΙ — he was in pain, he suffered, he grieved, he was distressed
- ἨΛΓΕΙΤΟΝ — he was suffering, he was in pain, he was grieved
- ἨΛΓΗΣΕ — he grieved, he suffered, he felt pain, he was distressed
- ἨΛΓΗΣΕΝ — he grieved, he was pained, he suffered, he felt pain
- ΗΛΓΗΣΑΝ — they suffered, they felt pain, they were in pain
- ΣΥΝΑΛΓΕΙΝ — to suffer with, to grieve with, to sympathize, to feel pain with
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