ΚΑΤΩΚΤΕΙΡΑΝ, κατωκτειραν
KATŌKTEIRAN, katōkteiran
Sounds Like: kah-tok-TAY-ran
Translations: they pitied, they had compassion on
From the root: ΚΑΤΟΙΚΤΕΙΡΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a verb meaning 'to pity deeply' or 'to have compassion on'. It is a compound word formed from the prefix 'κατά' (kata), meaning 'down' or 'against' and intensifying the action, and the verb 'οἰκτείρω' (oikteirō), meaning 'to pity'. It describes an intense feeling of sympathy or mercy towards someone. In this form, it indicates an action completed in the past by a group of people.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Active, Third Person Plural
Strong’s number: G2793 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 9 — 3:43
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΟΙΚΤΕΙΡΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΟΙΚΤΕΙΡΑΙ — to have compassion, to pity, to feel pity, to show mercy
- ΚΑΤΟΙΚΤΕΙΡΑΝΤΟΣ — having had compassion, having pitied, of having had compassion, of having pitied
- ΚΑΤΟΙΚΤΕΙΡΗΣΑΣ — having had compassion, having pitied, having felt pity
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