ΚΑΡΑΤΟΜΗΣΩΝ, καρατομησων
KARATOMĒSŌN, karatomēsōn
Sounds Like: kah-rah-toh-MAY-son
Translations: about to behead, going to behead, having beheaded
From the root: ΚΑΡΑΤΟΜΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound verb, formed from 'κάρα' (kara), meaning 'head', and 'τέμνω' (temnō), meaning 'to cut'. It literally means 'to cut off the head' or 'to behead'. As a participle, it describes an action that is about to happen or has already happened, depending on the context and tense. In this form, it indicates someone who is about to behead or has beheaded.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Singular
Strong’s number: G2776 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 7:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΡΑΤΟΜΕΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΡΑΤΟΜΕΩ — to behead, to cut off the head
- ΚΑΡΑΤΟΜΗΘΕΝΤΟΣΕΝ — of having been beheaded, in, on, at, by, with
- ΚΑΡΑΤΟΜΗΣΩ — I will behead, I will cut off the head
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