ΜΕΙΩΣΑΙ, μειωσαι
MEIŌSAI, meiōsai
Sounds Like: may-OH-sah-ee
Translations: to diminish, to lessen, to make less, to decrease
From the root: ΜΕΙΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to make something smaller in quantity, size, or degree. It can be used in various contexts to describe a reduction or decrease. For example, one might diminish a supply of food or lessen the intensity of a feeling.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G3386 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 4:62
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΙΟΩ.
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.
- ἘΜΕΙΩΣΕΝ — he diminished, he lessened, he made less
- ΜΕΙΟΥΜΕΝ — we diminish, we decrease, we make less, we lessen
- ΜΕΙΟΥΜΕΝΗΣ — diminishing, decreasing, being made less, being lessened
- ΜΕΙΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ — decreasing, diminishing, being made less, being lessened
- ΜΕΙΟΥΜΕΝΩΝ — of diminishing, of decreasing, of lessening, of those diminishing, of those decreasing, of those lessening
- ΜΕΙΟΥΝ — to make less, to diminish, to lessen, to reduce
- ΜΕΙΟΥΣΘΑΙ — to be made less, to be diminished, to be inferior, to be reduced, to be lessened
- ΜΕΙΟΩ — to make less, to diminish, to decrease, to be made less, to be diminished, to be decreased
- ΜΕΙΩΘΕΝΤΑΣ — having been diminished, having been made less, diminished, reduced
- ΜΕΙΩΣΑΣ — having diminished, having lessened, having reduced, having made less
- ΜΕΙΩΣΕΙΝ — to diminish, to lessen, to make less
- ΜΕΩΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they will be diminished, they will be made less, they will decrease
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