ΥΦΑΙΡΩΝ, υφαιρων
YPHAIRŌN, yphairōn
Sounds Like: hoo-fai-RON
Translations: taking away, removing, subtracting, withdrawing, stealing, pilfering
From the root: ΥΦΑΙΡΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'taking away' or 'removing'. It describes an action that is ongoing or habitual. It is a compound word formed from the preposition 'ὑπό' (hypo), meaning 'under' or 'from under', and the verb 'αἱρέω' (haireō), meaning 'to take' or 'to seize'. Thus, it literally means 'to take from under' or 'to take away'. It can be used to describe physically removing something, or metaphorically diminishing or subtracting from something.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Singular
Strong’s number: G5287 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 4:75
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΦΑΙΡΕΩ.
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.
- ΥΦΑΙΡΕΙΝ — to take away, to subtract, to remove, to diminish
- ΥΦΑΙΡΕΩ — to take away, to subtract, to remove, to diminish, to cut off
- ΥΦΑΙΡΟΥΜΕΝΟΙ — taking away, removing, stealing, withdrawing, subtracting
- ΥΦΑΙΡΟΥΝΤΕΣ — taking away, subtracting, removing, withdrawing, stealing
- ΥΦΕΙΛΑΤΟ — took away, removed, carried away, snatched away
- ΥΦΕΛΗΤΑΙ — take away, steal, defraud, subtract, remove
- ΥΦΕΛΟΜΕΝΟΣ — having taken away, having stolen, having withdrawn, having removed, having subtracted
- ΥΦΕΛΟΝΤΑ — taking away, removing, subtracting, withdrawing, stealing
- ΥΦΗΡΕΙ — he was taking away, he was subtracting, he was stealing, he was removing
- ΥΦΗΡΗΜΕΝΟΙ — taken away, removed, withdrawn, subtracted, diminished
- ΥΦΗΡΗΜΕΝΟΣ — taken away, removed, subtracted, withdrawn, stolen, one who has been taken away
- ΥΦΙΛΑΤΟ — took away, carried away, snatched away, removed
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