ΠΤΥΣΑΙ, πτυσαι
PTYSAI, ptysai
Sounds Like: PTOO-sai
Translations: to spit, to spit out, to reject, to despise
From the root: ΠΤΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist active infinitive form of the verb 'πτύω' (ptyō), meaning 'to spit'. It can be used literally to describe the act of spitting, or figuratively to mean to spit out, reject, or despise something. In a sentence, it would function as an infinitive, often dependent on another verb, indicating the action of spitting or rejecting.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G4429 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 8:31
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
- ΠΤΥΟΥΣΑ — spitting, spitting out
- 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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