ΠΡΟΦΑΣΙΖΟΜΕΝΩΝ, προφασιζομενων
PROPHASIZOMENŌN, prophasizomenōn
Sounds Like: pro-fah-SEE-zo-meh-non
Translations: making a pretext, making an excuse, pretending, alleging, feigning
From the root: ΠΡΟΦΑΣΙΖΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word describes the act of making an excuse or pretext, often to conceal the true reason or motive behind an action. It implies a feigned reason or a false appearance used to justify something. It is used to describe someone who is actively engaged in the process of offering such an excuse or pretense.
Inflection: Present, Middle/Passive, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G4392 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 5 — 1:57
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΦΑΣΙΖΟΜΑΙ.
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.
- ΠΡΟΦΑΣΙΖΕΣΘΑΙ — to make a pretext, to offer an excuse, to pretend, to make a show, to make a pretense
- ΠΡΟΦΑΣΙΖΕΤΑΙ — he makes an excuse, he pretends, he alleges, he offers as an excuse
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