ΗΣΤΟΧΗΣΑΝ, ηστοχησαν
ĒSTOCHĒSAN, ēstochēsan
Sounds Like: hees-to-KHE-san
Translations: they missed, they failed, they erred, they deviated
From the root: ΣΤΟΧΑΖΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the third person plural aorist active indicative form of the verb 'στοχάζομαι' (stochazomai), meaning 'to aim at, to guess, to hit the mark'. In the aorist tense, it signifies a completed action in the past, indicating that 'they missed the mark' or 'they failed'. It is often used in a moral or spiritual sense to mean 'to err' or 'to deviate from the truth'.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person, Plural
Strong’s number: G4766 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΟΧΑΖΟΜΑΙ.
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.
- ἘΣΤΟΧΑΣΑΜΗΝ — I aimed, I guessed, I conjectured, I supposed, I inferred, I formed an opinion
- ἘΣΤΟΧΑΣΘΑΙ — to aim at, to guess, to conjecture, to infer
- ἘΣΤΟΧΑΣΜΕΝΟΣ — aimed at, having aimed, conjectured, having conjectured, guessed, having guessed, considered, having considered
- ΣΤΟΧΑΖΕΣΘΑΙ — to aim at, to guess, to conjecture, to infer, to hit the mark, to speculate
- ΣΤΟΧΑΖΟΜΑΙ — to aim, to guess, to conjecture, to speculate, to infer, to hit the mark, to hit upon
- ΣΤΟΧΑΖΟΜΕΝΟΙ — aiming, considering, guessing, conjecturing, inferring, concluding, reckoning, supposing
- ΣΤΟΧΑΖΟΜΕΝΟΣ — aiming, aiming at, considering, conjecturing, guessing, speculating, hitting the mark, hitting upon
- ΣΤΟΧΑΖΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ — aiming, guessing, considering, inferring, those aiming, those guessing, those considering, those inferring
- ΣΤΟΧΑΖΟΜΕΝΩΝ — aiming, considering, conjecturing, guessing, speculating, a person aiming, a person considering
- ΣΤΟΧΑΣΑΙ — aim, aim at, guess, conjecture, consider, reflect, think, contemplate
- ΣΤΟΧΑΣΑΜΕΝΟΣ — having aimed, having considered, having concluded, having guessed, having speculated
- ΣΤΟΧΑΣΑΣΘΑΙ — to aim, to guess, to conjecture, to infer, to estimate, to speculate
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