ΠΑΡΑΦΘΕΓΞΑΜΕΝΟΙΣ, παραφθεγξαμενοις
PARAPHTHEGXAMENOIS, paraphthegxamenois
Sounds Like: pa-ra-fthENG-ksa-me-noyce
Translations: to those who spoke amiss, to those who uttered, to those who spoke wrongly, to those who spoke by the way
From the root: ΠΑΡΑΦΘΕΓΓΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound verb, formed from 'παρά' (para, meaning 'beside, by, amiss') and 'φθέγγομαι' (phthengomai, meaning 'to utter, to speak'). It describes the action of speaking or uttering something in an improper, misleading, or erroneous way. It can also imply speaking incidentally or by the way. As a participle, it describes someone who has performed this action.
Inflection: Aorist, Middle Voice, Participle, Dative, Masculine or Neuter, Plural
Strong’s number: G3850 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 14:32
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΡΑΦΘΕΓΓΟΜΑΙ.
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.
- ΠΑΡΑΦΘΕΓΓΟΜΑΙ — to speak amiss, to speak improperly, to speak unadvisedly, to speak beside the point, to speak by the way, to utter unadvisedly
- ΠΑΡΑΦΘΕΓΓΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ — speaking alongside, speaking amiss, uttering, speaking deceitfully
- ΠΑΡΑΦΘΕΓΞ — to speak beside, to speak amiss, to speak incorrectly, to speak out of turn
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