ἸΔΟΝΤΩΝ, ἰδοντων
IDONTŌN, idontōn
Sounds Like: ee-DON-tone
Translations: of those who saw, of those who had seen, of those seeing
From the root: ΕἾΔΟΝ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This is the genitive plural masculine/neuter aorist active participle of the verb ὉΡΆΩ (horao), meaning 'to see' or 'to perceive'. It refers to 'those who saw' or 'those who had seen' something, indicating an action completed in the past. It is often used to describe the group of people who witnessed an event.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine or Neuter, Aorist, Active, Participle
Strong’s number: G3708 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 17:33
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.
- ἸΔΟΝΤΑΣ — seeing, having seen, when they saw, a seeing, an having seen
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