ἸΔΟΝΤΑΣ, ἰδοντας
IDONTAS, idontas
Sounds Like: ee-DON-tas
Translations: seeing, having seen, when they saw, a seeing, an having seen
From the root: ΕἾΔΟΝ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle, meaning 'having seen' or 'seeing' in a past sense. It describes an action that occurred prior to or at the same time as the main verb of the sentence. It is often used to introduce a clause that explains the circumstances or cause of the main action.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Participle, Masculine, Accusative, Plural
Strong’s number: G3708 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 6:37
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Letter of Jeremiah — 1:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕἾΔΟΝ.
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.
- ἸΔΟΝΤΩΝ — of those who saw, of those who had seen, of those seeing
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