ΠΑΡΑΞΥΟΝΤΕΣ, παραξυοντες
PARAXYONTES, paraxyontes
Sounds Like: pa-ra-XOO-on-tes
Translations: scraping alongside, grazing, rubbing against, chafing, irritating
From the root: ΠΑΡΑΞΥΩ
Part of Speech: Participle, Adjective, Adverb
Explanation: This word is a participle derived from the verb 'παραξύω', meaning 'to scrape alongside' or 'to graze'. It describes an action of rubbing against something, often with a sense of friction or irritation. It can be used to describe physical contact, like a ship scraping a shore, or metaphorically, like an argument chafing someone's nerves. In a sentence, it would describe someone or something performing this action.
Inflection: Present, Active, Masculine, Nominative, Plural
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 10:63
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΡΑΞΥΩ.
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.
- ΠΑΡΑΞΥΩ — to scrape, to scratch, to shave
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