ΠΡΟΦΑΣΕΙΣ, προφασεις
PROPHASEIS, prophaseis
Sounds Like: pro-PHA-sees
Translations: pretexts, excuses, reasons, pretenses
From the root: ΠΡΟΦΑΣΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to reasons or excuses, often those that are not genuine or are used to conceal the true motive. It can also mean a pretense or a plausible reason given for an action, especially one that is misleading. It is used in a plural form here.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Accusative, or Vocative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4392 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Proverbs — 18:1
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 16:14
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΦΑΣΙΣ.
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.
- ΠΡΟΦΑΣΕΙ — (to) pretext, (to) excuse, (to) outward show, a pretext, an excuse, an outward show
- ΠΡΟΦΑΣΕΣΙΝ — pretext, excuse, a pretext, an excuse, pretense, a pretense
- ΠΡΟΦΑΣΕΩΝ — of excuses, of pretexts, of pretenses, of allegations
- ΠΡΟΦΑΣΕΩΣ — of pretext, of excuse, of pretense, of outward show, of a pretext, of an excuse, of a pretense, of an outward show
- ΠΡΟΦΑΣΙΝ — pretext, a pretext, excuse, a excuse, occasion, a occasion, appearance, a appearance
- ΠΡΟΦΑΣΙΣ — pretext, an excuse, a pretense, a cloak, an outward show
- ΤΩΝΠΡΟΦΑΣΕΩΝ — (of) pretexts, (of) excuses, (of) pretenses, (of) appearances
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