ΚΑΤΕΠΛΕΥΣΕΝ, κατεπλευσεν
KATEPLEUSEN, katepleusen
Sounds Like: kah-tep-LEU-sen
Translations: sailed down, sailed into, put into port, landed
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΠΛΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the action of sailing down to a place, often implying arrival at a port or landing. It is a compound verb formed from κατά (kata), meaning 'down' or 'against', and πλέω (pleō), meaning 'to sail'. Thus, it literally means 'to sail down' or 'to sail into'. It is used to describe a ship or person arriving by sea.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Active, Third Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G2671 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΠΛΕΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΠΕΠΛΕΥΚΕΙ — had sailed down, had sailed into port, had arrived by ship
- ΚΑΤΑΠΕΠΛΕΥΚΕΝΑΙ — to sail down, to put in, to arrive by ship, to land
- ΚΑΤΑΠΕΠΛΕΥΚΩΣ — having sailed down, having sailed into port, having put into port, having arrived by ship
- ΚΑΤΑΠΛΕΑ — to sail down, to put in, to land, to arrive by ship
- ΚΑΤΑΠΛΕΟΥΣΙΝ — they sail down, they sail into port, they put into port, they arrive by ship
- ΚΑΤΑΠΛΕΥΚΕΝΑΙ — to have sailed down, to have arrived by ship, to have put into port
- ΚΑΤΑΠΛΕΥΣΑΣ — having sailed down, having put in, having landed
- ΚΑΤΑΠΛΕΩ — to sail down, to sail into port, to put in, to arrive by ship
- ΚΑΤΑΠΛΩ — I sail down, I put in, I land
- ΚΑΤΕΠΛΕΙ — he was sailing down, he was putting into port, he was landing by ship
- ΚΑΤΕΠΛΕΥΣΑΝ — they sailed down, they landed, they put in, they arrived by ship
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