ΠΤΥΟΥΣΑ, πτυουσα
PTYOUSA, ptyousa
Sounds Like: PTOO-oo-sah
Translations: spitting, spitting out
From the root: ΠΤΥΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle derived from the verb 'πτύω' (ptyō), meaning 'to spit' or 'to spit out'. As a participle, it describes an action that is ongoing or habitual, functioning like an adjective or adverb. In this form, it describes a female person or thing that is in the act of spitting.
Inflection: Singular, Present, Active, Feminine, Nominative
Strong’s number: G4429 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 8:256
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΤΥΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΤΥΣΕΝ — spat
- ΕΠΤΥΣΕΝ — he spit, she spit, it spit, he did spit, she did spit, it did spit
- ΠΤΥΕΙΝ — to spit, to spit upon
- ΠΤΥΣΑΙ — to spit, to spit out, to reject, to despise
- ΠΤΥΣΑΣ — spitting, having spit, to spit
- ΠΤΥΣΗΣ — of spitting, of a spitting
- ΠΤΥΩ — to spit, to spit upon
- ΠΤΥΩΝ — spitting, one who spits, to spit
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