ΠΑΡΑΝΑΓΝΟΥΣ, παραναγνους
PARANAGNOUS, paranagnous
Sounds Like: pah-rah-nah-GNOOS
Translations: having read, having read aloud, having perused
From the root: ΠΑΡΑΝΑΓΙΓΝΩΣΚΩ
Part of Speech: Verb (Participle)
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle, meaning 'having read' or 'having read aloud'. It describes an action that was completed before the main action of the sentence. It is a compound word formed from 'παρά' (para, 'beside, alongside') and 'ἀναγιγνώσκω' (anagignōskō, 'to read, to recognize'). The 'παρά' prefix here intensifies the action of reading or implies reading through something thoroughly.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Aorist, Active, Participle
Strong’s number: G0320 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 10:33
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 8:23
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΡΑΝΑΓΙΓΝΩΣΚΩ.
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.
- ΠΑΡΑΝΑΓΙΓΝΩΣΚΩ — to read beside, to read along with, to read in addition, to read publicly, to read aloud
- ΠΑΡΑΝΑΓΝΩΣΘΕΝΤΟΣ — of having been misread, of having been read wrongly
- ΠΑΡΑΝΕΓΝΩΣΘΗ — it was read aloud, it was read publicly, it was recited
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