ἨΠΑΤΑ, ἠπατα
ĒPATA, ēpata
Sounds Like: HAY-pa-ta
Translations: deceived, was deceiving, cheated, was cheating, beguiled, was beguiling
From the root: ἈΠΑΤΆΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the third person singular imperfect active indicative form of the verb ἈΠΑΤΆΩ (apatáō), meaning 'to deceive' or 'to cheat'. It describes an action that was ongoing or repeated in the past, indicating that 'he/she/it was deceiving' or 'he/she/it was cheating'. It can be used in sentences to describe someone actively engaged in deception.
Inflection: Third Person, Singular, Imperfect, Active, Indicative
Strong’s number: G0538 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 1:8
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΑΤΆΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΑΤΑΝ — to deceive, to mislead, to cheat, to trick
- ἈΠΑΤΑΤΕ — deceive, mislead, cheat, beguile
- ἈΠΑΤΑΤΩ — let him deceive, he should deceive, deceive
- ἈΠΑΤΗΘΕΙΣ — deceived, having been deceived, being deceived
- ἈΠΑΤΗΘΗΣ — be deceived, be led astray, be cheated
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΑΙ — to deceive, to cheat, to trick
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having deceived, those who deceived, they who deceived
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΑΣ — deceiving, having deceived, misleading, having misled, beguiling, having beguiled
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΕΙΝ — to deceive, to cheat, to mislead, to trick
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΕΙΣ — you will deceive, you will mislead, you will trick
- ἈΠΑΤΩΜΕΝΟΙ — deceived, being deceived, deluded, misled, cheated, beguiled
- ἈΠΑΤΩΜΕΝΟΣ — deceiving, being deceived, misleading, being misled, beguiling, being beguiled
- ἈΠΑΤΩΝΤΟΣ — of deceiving, of misleading, of cheating, of beguiling
- ἈΠΑΤΩΣΙΝ — they may deceive, they might deceive, they deceive
- ἨΠΑΤΗΘΗ — was deceived, was beguiled, was misled, was cheated
- ἨΠΑΤΗΣΑΝ — they deceived, they cheated, they misled
- ἨΠΑΤΗΣΑΣ — you deceived, you cheated, you deluded
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