ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΑΝΤΕΣ, περισυραντες
PERISYRANTES, perisyrantes
Sounds Like: peh-ree-SYOO-ran-tes
Translations: dragging around, having dragged around, pulling around
From the root: ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound participle formed from the preposition περί (peri), meaning 'around' or 'about', and the verb σύρω (syro), meaning 'to drag' or 'to pull'. Therefore, it means 'to drag around' or 'to pull around'. It describes an action of forcibly moving something by dragging it in various directions or in a circular manner. It is used to describe someone who has performed this action.
Inflection: Aorist Active Participle, Nominative or Accusative, Plural, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G4060 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 4 Maccabees — 10:7
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 10:7
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΩ.
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.
- ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΟΝΤΕΣ — dragging around, hauling about, pulling around, carrying about
- ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΩ — to drag around, to drag about, to drag along, to carry away, to sweep away
- ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΩΝ — dragging around, pulling about, sweeping away, carrying along
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