ΜΗΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΟΝΤΕΣ, μηκαθαρευοντες
MĒKATHAREUONTES, mēkathareuontes
Sounds Like: mee-ka-thar-EV-on-tes
Translations: not being clean, not being pure, not purifying themselves, not cleansing themselves
From the root: ΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This is a compound word formed from the negative particle 'μη' (me), meaning 'not', and the present active participle of the verb 'καθαρεύω' (kathareuō), which means 'to be clean' or 'to purify'. Therefore, 'ΜΗΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΟΝΤΕΣ' means 'not being clean' or 'not purifying themselves'. It describes individuals who are in a state of impurity or who are not performing the act of cleansing.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G2511 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 5:44
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΩ.
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.
- ἘΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΣΕΝ — he cleansed, she cleansed, it cleansed, he purified, she purified, it purified
- ΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΕΙΝ — to be clean, to be pure, to keep oneself pure, to abstain from, to be free from
- ΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΟΝΤΕΣ — being clean, purifying, those who are clean, those who are pure
- ΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΣΑΙ — to be clean, to be pure, to be free from, to be clear of
- ΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΣΑΝΤΑ — having been purified, having cleansed, having become clean
- ΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΣΑΣ — having been purified, having become clean, having been cleansed, having been made pure
- ΚΑΘΑΡΕΥΩ — to be clean, to be pure, to be free from defilement
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