ΣΑΦΕΙΝ, σαφειν
SAPHEIN, saphein
Sounds Like: sah-FEIN
Translations: to make clear, to make distinct, to explain, to clarify
From the root: ΣΑΦΗΣ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an aorist infinitive form of a verb related to the adjective 'σαφής' (saphēs), meaning 'clear' or 'distinct'. It means 'to make clear' or 'to explain'. It is used to describe the action of clarifying something or making it understandable.
Inflection: Aorist, Infinitive
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 11 — 8:329
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΑΦΗΣ.
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.
- ΣΑΦ — clear, distinct, plain, evident, certain, true
- ΣΑΦΕΙ — clear, plain, distinct, evident, a clear, a plain, a distinct, a evident, (to) clear, (to) plain, (to) distinct, (to) evident
- ΣΑΦΕΣ — clear, plain, evident, certain, a clear thing, the clear thing
- ΣΑΦΕΣΤΑΤΑ — most clearly, most plainly, most distinctly, very clearly, very plainly, very distinctly
- ΣΑΦΕΣΤΑΤΟΝ — clearest, most clear, most evident, a clearest thing
- ΣΑΦΕΣΤΕΡΟΝ — clearer, plainer, more distinct, more evident, more clearly, more plainly
- ΣΑΦΗ — clear, plain, evident, distinct, a clear thing, plain things
- ΣΑΦΗΣ — clear, plain, evident, distinct, a clear, a plain, an evident, a distinct
- ΣΑΦΟΥΣ — clear, plain, distinct, evident, certain, true
- ΣΑΦΩΣ — clearly, plainly, distinctly, evidently, certainly
- ΤΟΣΑΦΕΣ — the clear, the evident, the certain, the distinct
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