ΘΝΗΣΚΟΥΣΙ, θνησκουσι
THNĒSKOUSI, thnēskousi
Sounds Like: THNEES-koo-see
Translations: they are dying, they die, they are perishing, they perish
From the root: ΘΝΗΣΚΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning 'to die' or 'to perish'. It describes the act of ceasing to live or exist. It is used to indicate that a group of people or things are in the process of dying or have the characteristic of dying.
Inflection: Present Indicative, Active Voice, Third Person Plural
Strong’s number: G2348 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΝΗΣΚΩ.
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.
- ἘΘΝΗΣΚΟΝ — they were dying, they died, to die
- ΘΑΝΕΙΝ — to die, to be dead
- ΘΝΗΣΙΜΕΟΙΣ — you may die, you might die, you may be dying, you might be dying
- ΘΝΗΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ — dying, those who are dying, about to die
- ΘΝΗΣΚΩ — to die, to be dying, to be about to die
- ΘΝΗΣΚΩΝ — dying, about to die, being dead
- ΣΥΝΑΠΟΘΑΝΙΝ — to die with, to die together, to die along with
- ΤΕΘΝΕΑΣΙΝ — they have died, they are dead, they had died, they were dead
- ΤΕΘΝΗΚΑ — I have died, I am dead
- ΤΕΘΝΗΚΟΤΑΣ — dead, the dead, those who have died
- ΤΟΙΣΘΝΗΣΚΟΥΣΙΝ — (to) the dying, (for) the dying, (to) those who are dying, (for) those who are dying
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