ΚΑΤΕΚΟΣΜΗΘΗ, κατεκοσμηθη
KATEKOSMĒTHĒ, katekosmēthē
Sounds Like: kah-teh-kos-MAY-thay
Translations: was adorned, was decorated, was embellished, was arrayed
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΚΟΣΜΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist passive indicative third person singular form of the verb κατακοσμέω (katakosmeō), meaning 'to adorn fully' or 'to decorate thoroughly'. It describes an action where someone or something was completely and beautifully decorated or arranged. It is a compound word formed from the prefix κατά (kata), meaning 'down' or 'completely', and the verb κοσμέω (kosmeō), meaning 'to arrange, adorn, or decorate'.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Passive, 3rd Person Singular
Strong’s number: G2689 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 20:149
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΚΟΣΜΕΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΚΕΚΟΣΜΗΤΟ — had been adorned, had been decorated, had been embellished
- ΚΑΤΕΚΟΣΜΗΣΑΝ — adorned, decorated, beautified
- ΚΑΤΕΚΟΣΜΗΣΕΝ — he adorned, he decorated, he embellished, he arrayed
- ΚΑΤΕΚΟΣΜΟΥΝ — they were adorning, they were decorating, they were arranging, they were setting in order
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