ΦΕΡΟΝΤΕΣΤΩΝ, φεροντεστων
PHERONTESTŌN, pherontestōn
Sounds Like: FEH-ron-tes-TON
Translations: bearing, carrying, bringing, enduring, of the, of those
From the root: ΦΕΡΩ, Ο
Part of Speech: Participle, Article
Explanation: This word appears to be a compound of two separate Koine Greek words, 'ΦΕΡΟΝΤΕΣ' (pherontes) and 'ΤΩΝ' (tōn), which have been written together without a space. 'ΦΕΡΟΝΤΕΣ' is a present active participle meaning 'bearing,' 'carrying,' 'bringing,' or 'enduring.' 'ΤΩΝ' is the genitive plural definite article, meaning 'of the' or 'of those.' When combined, it would typically mean 'bearing of the' or 'those bearing of the.'
Inflection: ΦΕΡΟΝΤΕΣ: Present Active Participle, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine or Feminine, Plural. ΤΩΝ: Genitive, Plural, All genders.
Strong’s numbers: G5342 (Lookup on BibleHub), G3588 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Unknown: Yes
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 3:58
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΕΡΩ, Ο.
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.
- ἘΦΕΡΟΝΤΟΤΟΝ — they were being carried, they were being brought, they were bearing, they were bringing, the
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