ΥΠΩΡΥΤΤΕΤΟ, υπωρυττετο
YPŌRYTTETO, ypōrytteto
Sounds Like: hoo-po-ROO-tet-to
Translations: was being undermined, was being dug under, was being sapped
From the root: ΥΠΟΡΥΣΣΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the action of digging or burrowing underneath something, often with the intention of causing it to collapse or fall. It implies a gradual and persistent effort to weaken a structure from below, commonly used in a military context for siege operations against walls or fortifications.
Inflection: Imperfect, Indicative, Passive, 3rd Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G5267 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 17:32
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΠΟΡΥΣΣΩ.
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.
- ΥΠΟΡΥΞΑΝΤΕΣ — having dug under, having undermined, having broken through, those who dug under
- ΥΠΟΡΥΞΑΣ — having dug under, having undermined, having tunneled
- ΥΠΟΡΥΞΕ — he dug under, he undermined, he broke through, he dug through
- ΥΠΟΡΥΣΣΕΙΝ — to dig under, to undermine, to break through, to burrow under
- ΥΠΟΡΥΣΣΟΥΣΙΝ — dig under, undermine, break through, dig through
- ΥΠΟΡΥΣΣΩ — to dig under, to undermine, to break through, to break into
- ΥΠΟΡΩΡΥΚΤΟ — undermined, dug under, dug out from under
- ΥΠΩΡΥΞΕΝ — dug under, undermined
- ΥΠΩΡΥΤΤΟΝ — they were undermining, they were digging under, they were digging beneath
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