ΝΗΨΑΤΕ, νηψατε
NĒPSATE, nēpsate
Sounds Like: NAY-psah-teh
Translations: be sober, sober up, be self-controlled, be watchful, be vigilant
From the root: ΝΗΦΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a command, meaning to be sober, vigilant, or self-controlled. It can refer to literal sobriety from alcohol, but is often used metaphorically to mean being clear-headed, watchful, and self-disciplined in one's thoughts and actions. It is an imperative, directing a group of people to adopt this state.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Imperative, Second Person Plural
Strong’s number: G3525 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΗΦΩ.
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.
- ΝΗΦ — be sober, be temperate, be watchful, be self-controlled
- ΝΗΦΕ — be sober, be watchful, be self-controlled, be temperate
- ΝΗΦΕΙΝ — to be sober, to be self-controlled, to be temperate, to be watchful
- ΝΗΦΟΝΤΕΣ — being sober, sober, being temperate, temperate
- ΝΗΦΟΝΤΙ — (to) a sober one, (to) one who is sober, (to) a vigilant one, (to) one who is vigilant
- ΝΗΦΩ — be sober, be temperate, be calm, be self-controlled
- ΝΗΦΩΜΕ — let us be sober, let us be self-controlled, let us be temperate, let us be calm, let us be watchful
- ΝΗΦΩΜΕΝ — let us be sober, let us be self-controlled, let us be temperate, let us be watchful
- ΝΗΦΩΝ — sober, watchful, vigilant, a sober one, a watchful one
- ΝΗΨ — sober, temperate, watchful, alert
- ΝΗΨΑΝΤΕΣ — being sober, having become sober, being watchful, having become watchful, being self-controlled, having become self-controlled
- ΝΗΨΩΜΕΝ — let us be sober, let us be watchful, let us be self-controlled
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