2001 Translation

OIKTROTATOS, oiktrotatos

Sounds Like: oyk-TRO-tah-tos

Translations: most pitiable, most miserable, most wretched

From the root: ΟΙΚΤΡΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word is the superlative form of the adjective 'οἰκτρός' (oiktros), meaning 'pitiable' or 'miserable'. As a superlative, it indicates the highest degree of that quality, thus 'most pitiable' or 'most miserable'. It describes someone or something that evokes the greatest pity or is in the most wretched state.

Inflection: Superlative, Nominative, Masculine, Singular

Strong’s number: G3629 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 26:9

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΙΚΤΡΟΣ.

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.

• ΟἸΚΤΡΑ — pitiable, miserable, wretched, a pitiable one, a miserable one, a wretched one
• ΟἸΚΤΡΑΝ — pitiable, wretched, miserable, a pitiable, a wretched, a miserable
• ΟἸΚΤΡΟΝ — pitiable, miserable, wretched, lamentable, a pitiable thing
• ΟἸΚΤΡΟΤΑΤΗΝ — most pitiful, most miserable, most wretched, most lamentable
• ΟἸΚΤΡΟΤΑΤΟΝ — most pitiable, most wretched, most miserable, a most pitiable thing, a most wretched thing, a most miserable thing
• ΟἸΚΤΡΟΤΕΡΑ — more pitiful, more wretched, more miserable, a more pitiful one, a more wretched one, a more miserable one
• ΟἸΚΤΡΟΤΕΡΟΝ — more pitiable, more wretched, more miserable, more lamentable
• ΟἸΚΤΡΟΥ — of wretched, of pitiable, of miserable, of pitiful
• ΟἸΚΤΡΩ — pitiable, miserable, wretched, a pitiable, a miserable, a wretched
• ΟἸΚΤΡΩΣ — miserably, pitiably, wretchedly, pitifully
• ΟΙΚΤΡΑ — pitiable, miserable, wretched, lamentable
• ΟΙΚΤΡΟΝ — pitiable, miserable, wretched, a pitiable one, a miserable one, a wretched one
• ΟΙΚΤΡΟΣ — pitiable, wretched, miserable, a pitiable, a wretched, a miserable
• ΟΙΚΤΡΟΥ — of wretched, of miserable, of pitiable, of lamentable

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