ΜΕΝἈΜΥΝΕΣΘΑΙ, μενἀμυνεσθαι
MENAMYNESTHAI, menamynesthai
Sounds Like: men-ah-MOO-nes-thai
Translations: to defend oneself, to ward off, to avenge oneself, to resist
From the root: ἈΜΥΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound word formed from the particle μέν (men) and the middle infinitive of ἀμύνω (amynō). The particle μέν often serves to emphasize or contrast, while ἀμύνεσθαι means 'to defend oneself' or 'to ward off'. Therefore, the combined form emphasizes the act of defending oneself or resisting. It describes an action of self-defense or retaliation.
Inflection: Present, Middle Voice, Infinitive
Strong’s numbers: G0001 (Lookup on BibleHub), G0297 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 7:15
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΜΥΝΩ.
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.
- ἈΜΥΝΑΣ — defending, avenging, warding off, helping, Amuynas
- ἈΜΥΝΕΙ — he will defend, he will ward off, he will help, he will assist
- ἈΜΥΝΕΙΝ — to ward off, to defend, to help, to avenge, to assist, to repel, to keep off
- ἈΜΥΝΕΙΝΜΕΝ — to ward off, to defend, to help, to assist
- ἈΜΥΝΕΙΣΘΑΙ — to defend oneself, to avenge oneself, to ward off, to repel, to help
- ἈΜΥΝΕΣΘΑΙ — to defend oneself, to ward off, to repel, to avenge oneself, to retaliate
- ἈΜΥΝΕΣΘΕ — to ward off, to defend oneself, to avenge, to punish
- ἈΜΥΝΟΜΕΝΟΙΣ — (to) those defending themselves, (to) those warding off, (to) those avenging themselves, (to) those helping themselves
- ἈΜΥΝΟΜΕΝΟΣ — defending, avenging, helping, warding off, repelling, a defender, an avenger
- ἈΜΥΝΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ — defending, protecting, avenging, warding off, repelling
- ἈΜΥΝΟΜΕΝΩΝ — of those defending, of those warding off, of those assisting, of those avenging
- ἈΜΥΝΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ — defending, avenging, warding off, repelling, assisting, helping
- ἈΜΥΝΩΝΤΑΙ — to defend oneself, to ward off, to avenge oneself
- ἨΜΥΝΑΤΟ — defended, warded off, helped, avenged
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