ΣΤΥΓΝΑ, στυγνα
STYGNA, stygna
Sounds Like: STYGH-nah
Translations: gloomy, sad, sullen, dismal, stern
From the root: ΣΤΥΓΝΑΖΩ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone as gloomy, sad, or sullen. It can refer to a person's demeanor, a place, or a situation that appears dismal or stern. For example, a person might have a 'gloomy' face, or the weather might be 'dismal'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter; or Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4768 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 19 — 7:318
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΥΓΝΑΖΩ.
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.
- ἘΣΤΥΓΝΑΣΑΝ — they were gloomy, they were sad, they were downcast, they were somber
- ΣΤΥΓΝΑΖΩ — to be sad, to be gloomy, to be sullen, to be downcast, to look sad, to look gloomy
- ΣΤΥΓΝΑΖΩΝ — being gloomy, looking sad, being sad, looking downcast, being downcast
- ΣΤΥΓΝΑΣΑΣ — having become gloomy, having been saddened, having frowned, having looked sternly
- ΣΤΥΓΝΑΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will be gloomy, they will be sad, they will be dismayed, they will be horrified
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