ΣΤΕΝΩΝ, στενων
STENŌN, stenōn
Sounds Like: steh-NOHN
Translations: groaning, sighing, lamenting, a groaning one
From the root: ΣΤΕΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present participle derived from the verb 'stenō' or 'stenazō', meaning 'to groan' or 'to sigh'. It describes someone who is in the act of groaning, sighing, or lamenting, often due to distress, pain, or deep emotion. It can function adjectivally, describing a person who is groaning, or adverbially, indicating the manner in which an action is performed (e.g., 'he went groaning').
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine or Neuter, Singular
Strong’s number: G4727 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΕΝΩ.
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.
- ΣΤΕΝΕΙΝ — to groan, to sigh, to lament, to sigh deeply, to grieve
- ΣΤΕΝΟΝΤΟΣ — of groaning, of sighing, of lamenting
- ΣΤΕΝΟΥ — to groan, to sigh, to lament, to be in distress
- ΣΤΕΝΟΥΣΙΝ — they groan, they sigh, they lament
- ΣΤΕΝΩ — to groan, to sigh, to be in distress, to be constrained, to be narrow
- ΤΕΝΩΝ — groaning, sighing, a groaning, a sighing, lamenting, a lamenting
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