ΜΗΚΥΝΟΝΤΕΣ, μηκυνοντες
MĒKYNONTES, mēkynontes
Sounds Like: may-KOO-non-tes
Translations: lengthening, prolonging, making long, drawing out
From the root: ΜΗΚΥΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'lengthening' or 'prolonging'. It describes an action that is currently happening or ongoing. It can be used to describe someone or something that is making something else longer, or extending a period of time.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Masculine, Nominative, Plural
Strong’s number: G3371 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:8
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΗΚΥΝΩ.
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.
- ἘΜΗΚΥΝΕΝ — lengthened, prolonged, made long, extended
- ΕΜΗΚΥΝΕΝ — he lengthened, it lengthened, he prolonged, it prolonged, he extended, it extended
- ΜΗΚΥΝΕΤΑΙ — it is lengthened, it is extended, it is prolonged, it is stretched out
- ΜΗΚΥΝΗΤΑΙ — it lengthens, it grows long, it increases, it is prolonged
- ΜΗΚΥΝΟΜΕΝΗΝ — lengthened, extended, stretched out
- ΜΗΚΥΝΟΜΕΝΗΣ — being prolonged, being lengthened, being extended, being delayed
- ΜΗΚΥΝΟΜΕΝΟΝ — lengthened, being lengthened, extended, being extended, prolonged, being prolonged
- ΜΗΚΥΝΟΜΕΝΟΣ — being lengthened, being prolonged, being extended, being made long
- ΜΗΚΥΝΟΜΕΝΟΥ — of being prolonged, of being lengthened, of being made long
- ΜΗΚΥΝΩ — prolong, lengthen, delay, stretch out, make long
- ΜΗΚΥΝΩΣΙΝ — prolong, lengthen, make long, delay
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