ΤΛΗΜΟΝΕΣΤΑΤΟΙ, τλημονεστατοι
TLĒMONESTATOI, tlēmonestatoi
Sounds Like: tleh-moh-NES-tah-toy
Translations: most wretched, most miserable, most enduring, most suffering
From the root: ΤΛΗΜΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is the superlative form of the adjective 'τλήμων' (tlēmōn), meaning 'wretched' or 'miserable'. As a superlative, it indicates the highest degree of wretchedness, misery, or suffering. It describes someone who is extremely unfortunate, enduring great hardship, or deeply afflicted. It can be used to emphasize the dire state or extreme suffering of a person or group.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5087 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 3:54
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΤΛΗΜΩΝ.
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.
- ΤΛΗΜΟΝ — wretched, miserable, suffering, enduring, patient, a wretched one, a miserable one
- ΤΛΗΜΟΝΕΣΤΑΤΗ — most wretched, most miserable, most unhappy
- ΤΛΗΜΟΝΙ — (to) wretched, (to) miserable, (to) suffering, (to) enduring
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