ΣΑΦΕΣΤΑΤΑ, σαφεστατα
SAPHESTATA, saphestata
Sounds Like: sah-fes-TAH-tah
Translations: most clearly, most plainly, most distinctly, very clearly, very plainly, very distinctly
From the root: ΣΑΦΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adverb
Explanation: This word is an adverb in the superlative degree, meaning 'most clearly' or 'most plainly'. It is used to emphasize the clarity or distinctness of an action or statement, indicating that something is done or perceived with the highest possible degree of clarity. For example, it might be used to describe speaking or understanding something in a very straightforward and unambiguous way.
Inflection: Superlative, Adverbial
Strong’s number: G4681 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 7:17
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 19 — 1:149
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
- ΣΑΦΕΙΝ — to make clear, to make distinct, to explain, to clarify
- ΣΑΦΕΣ — clear, plain, evident, certain, a clear thing, the clear thing
- 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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