ΣΦΑΛΕΡΩΤΑΤΩΝ, σφαλερωτατων
SPHALERŌTATŌN, sphalerōtatōn
Sounds Like: sfah-leh-ROH-tah-tohn
Translations: of the most dangerous, of the most treacherous, of the most unstable, of the most prone to stumble
From the root: ΣΦΑΛΕΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is the genitive plural form of the adjective 'σφαλερός' (sphalerós), meaning 'dangerous,' 'treacherous,' 'unstable,' or 'prone to stumble.' As a superlative, it indicates the highest degree of these qualities, meaning 'most dangerous,' 'most treacherous,' 'most unstable,' or 'most prone to stumble.' It is used to describe things or situations that carry the greatest risk or are most likely to cause failure or a fall. In a sentence, it would modify a plural noun in the genitive case, indicating possession or relationship.
Inflection: Superlative, Genitive, Plural, Masculine or Feminine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G5389 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 1:50
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΦΑΛΕΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΣΦΑΛΕΡΑ — unstable, a stumbling, dangerous, perilous, fallible, liable to fall
- ΣΦΑΛΕΡΑΙ — slippery, unstable, dangerous, perilous, a slippery one, an unstable one, a dangerous one, a perilous one
- ΣΦΑΛΕΡΑΝ — dangerous, a dangerous, perilous, a perilous, risky, a risky
- ΣΦΑΛΕΡΟΣ — unstable, tottering, dangerous, perilous, slippery
- ΣΦΑΛΕΡΟΥ — of dangerous, of perilous, of uncertain, of unstable, of fallible, of slippery
- ΣΦΑΛΕΡΟΥΣ — unstable, treacherous, dangerous, perilous, fallible
- ΣΦΑΛΕΡΩΤΑΤΗ — most dangerous, most perilous, most fallible, a most dangerous, a most perilous, a most fallible
- ΣΦΑΛΕΡΩΤΑΤΟΥΣ — most unstable, most dangerous, most fallible, most treacherous
- ΣΦΑΛΕΡΩΤΕΡΟΝ — more dangerous, more treacherous, more unstable, a more dangerous thing
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