ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΩΝ, κατασειων
KATASEIŌN, kataseiōn
Sounds Like: kah-tah-SAY-ohn
Translations: shaking, waving, motioning, beckoning
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΩ
Part of Speech: Participle, Verb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle derived from the verb 'κατασείω'. It is a compound word formed from 'κατά' (down, against) and 'σείω' (to shake, to move). It describes the action of shaking, waving, or motioning, often with the hand, to indicate something or to command silence. It can be used to describe someone who is shaking something down or waving to get attention.
Inflection: Present Active Participle, Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G2686 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 8:323
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΕΤΑΙ — is shaken, is swayed, is agitated, is moved
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΟΝΤΕΣ — shaking, waving, motioning, beckoning
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΣΑΝΤΟΣ — having shaken, having waved, having motioned
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΣΑΣ — having motioned, having waved, having shaken, having shaken down
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΣΘΗΝΑΙ — to shake violently, to be shaken violently, to be agitated, to be stirred up
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΩ — to shake, to wave, to motion, to beckon, to make a sign
- ΚΑΤΑΣΗΣΑΙ — to shake down, to scatter, to strew, to sift
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕ — shook, caused to fall, caused to collapse, caused to shake, caused to be overthrown
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΕ — shook down, overthrew, caused to fall, demolished
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΕΝ — he waved, he shook, he motioned, he beckoned
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΟΝ — they were shaking, they were waving, they were motioning
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΣΕΝ — he shook, he waved, he motioned, he signaled
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΣΘΗ — was shaken down, was overthrown, was made to fall, was made to collapse
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΩ — to wave, to make a sign, to beckon, to shake down, to shake violently
- ΚΑΤΕΣΗΣΑΝ — they shook, they waved, they motioned, they beckoned
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