ΗΥ̓ΤΟΜΟΛΗΣΑ, ηὐτομολησα
ĒUTOMOLĒSA, ēutomolēsa
Sounds Like: ee-oo-toh-moh-LEE-sah
Translations: they deserted, they went over, they defected
From the root: ΑΥ̓ΤΟΜΟΛΈΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative form of the verb ΑΥ̓ΤΟΜΟΛΈΩ (automoleo), meaning 'to desert' or 'to go over to the enemy'. It describes an action completed in the past, indicating that a group of people abandoned their previous allegiance or side and joined another. It is a compound word formed from ΑΥ̓ΤΟΣ (autos, 'self') and ΜΟΛΈΩ (moleo, 'to come' or 'to go').
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G888 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Samuel — 3:8
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΥ̓ΤΟΜΟΛΈΩ.
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.
- ΑΥ̓ΤΟΜΟΛΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ — deserting, having deserted, defecting, having defected, going over, having gone over
- ΗΥ̓ΤΟΜΟΛΗΣΑΝ — deserted, went over, defected
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