ἨΜΒΛΥΝΕΝ, ἠμβλυνεν
ĒMBLYNEN, ēmblynen
Sounds Like: eem-BLOO-nen
Translations: dulled, blunted, dimmed, made dull, made blunt, made dim
From the root: ΑΜΒΛΥΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This verb means to make something dull, blunt, or dim. It can be used literally, such as blunting a weapon, or figuratively, such as dulling one's senses or understanding. In a sentence, it would describe an action that causes something to lose its sharpness, brightness, or keenness.
Inflection: Aorist Active Indicative, 3rd Person Singular
Strong’s number: G0269 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 5:38
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΜΒΛΥΝΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΗΜΒΛΥΝΕΝ — blunted, dulled, made dull, made dim
- ΑΜΒΛΟΥΝ — to blunt, to dull, to make dull, to weaken, to impair
- ΑΜΒΛΥΝΩ — to dull, to make dull, to blunt, to weaken, to impair
- ἨΜΒΛΥΝΘΗ — was dulled, became dull, was blunted, became dim, was made dull, became weak
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