ΣΤΥΓ, στυγ
STYG, styg
Sounds Like: STOO-geh-oh
Translations: to hate, to abhor, to detest, to shrink from
From the root: ΣΤΥΓΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes a strong feeling of aversion, hatred, or detestation towards something or someone. It implies a deep-seated dislike or abhorrence. It can also mean to shrink from or avoid something due to a strong negative feeling. In the provided context, 'ΣΤΥΓΟΥΝΤΕΣ' (stygountes) is a present active participle, meaning 'hating' or 'detesting'.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural (for ΣΤΥΓΟΥΝΤΕΣ); Root form (for ΣΤΥΓ)
Strong’s number: G4787 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΥΓΕΩ.
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.
- ἘΣΤΥΓΗΚΑΣΙ — they have hated, they hated, they detested, they abhorred
- ἘΣΤΥΓΗΚΕΝ — he has hated, she has hated, it has hated
- ΣΤΥΓΕΙΣ — you hate, you detest, you abhor
- ΣΤΥΓΕΩ — to hate, to abhor, to detest
- ΣΤΥΓΗΣΕΙ — he will hate, she will hate, it will hate
- ΣΤΥΓΗΤΑΙ — they are hated, they are detested, they are abhorred
- ΣΤΥΓΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ — being hated, hated, detested, a hated one
- ΣΤΥΓΟΥΝΤΕΣ — hating, abhorring, detesting, loathing
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