ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΕΣΙΝ, παραιτησεσιν
PARAITĒSESIN, paraitēsesin
Sounds Like: pah-rah-ee-TEE-seh-sin
Translations: (to) a refusal, (to) an excuse, (to) a rejection, (to) a deprecation, (to) an entreaty
From the root: ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is a noun meaning a refusal, an excuse, a rejection, or an entreaty. It refers to the act of declining something, offering a reason for not doing something, or making a request to be excused from something. In its dative plural form, as seen in ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΕΣΙΝ, it indicates the indirect object of an action, meaning 'to' or 'for' these things.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3862 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 10:238
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΙΣ.
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.
- ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΕΙ — request, entreaty, excuse, refusal, rejection, a request, an entreaty, an excuse, a refusal, a rejection
- ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΕΩΣ — of refusal, of rejection, of excuse, of deprecation, of entreaty, of a request
- ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΙΝ — request, entreaty, excuse, refusal, a request, an entreaty, an excuse, a refusal
- ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΙΣ — refusal, a refusal, rejection, an excuse, a plea, deprecation, entreaty
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