ΛΗΣΤΕΥΟΝΤΙ, ληστευοντι
LĒSTEUONTI, lēsteuonti
Sounds Like: lees-TEV-on-tee
Translations: (to) a robber, (to) one robbing, (to) one plundering, (to) one committing robbery
From the root: ΛΗΣΤΕΥΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle of the verb 'ληστεύω' (lēsteuō), meaning 'to rob' or 'to plunder'. As a participle, it functions like an adjective or adverb, describing an action performed by someone. In this dative form, it indicates the recipient or indirect object of an action, referring to 'one who is robbing' or 'a robber'. It describes someone actively engaged in acts of banditry or plunder.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G3027 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 7:204
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΗΣΤΕΥΩ.
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.
- ἈΛΗΣΤΕΥΤΟΝ — unrobbed, unplundered, not subject to robbery
- ΑΛΗΣΤΕΥΤΟΝ — unrobbed, not plundered, not stolen
- ἘΛΗΣΤΕΥΟΝ — they were robbing, they robbed, they plundered, they were plundering
- ΛΗΣΤΕ — to rob, to plunder, to steal, to commit highway robbery
- ΛΗΣΤΕΥΕΙΝ — to rob, to plunder, to commit robbery
- ΛΗΣΤΕΥΟΝΤΕΣ — robbing, plundering, committing robbery, acting as a robber
- ΛΗΣΤΕΥΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having robbed, having plundered, having committed robbery
- ΛΗΣΤΕΥΩ — to rob, to plunder, to commit robbery
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