ἈΚΑΤΕΛΑ, ἀκατελα
AKATELA, akatela
Sounds Like: ah-kah-TAH-leh-lah
Translations: incomprehensible, ungraspable, unknowable, not to be apprehended
From the root: ΑΚΑΤΑΛΗΠΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is likely a misspelling or a truncated form of the Koine Greek word ἀκατάληπτος (akataleptos). The word ἀκατάληπτος means 'incomprehensible' or 'that which cannot be grasped or apprehended'. It describes something that is beyond human understanding or perception, often used in philosophical or theological contexts to refer to God's nature or divine mysteries. It is a compound word formed from the negative prefix ἀ- (a-), meaning 'not', and καταλαμβάνω (katalambanō), meaning 'to grasp' or 'to comprehend'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine (if it were ἀκατάληπτος, the feminine form would be ἀκατάληπτος or ἀκατάληπτη, but the provided word is likely a typo)
Strong’s number: G0263 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Unknown: Yes
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 2:56
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΚΑΤΑΛΗΠΤΟΣ.
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.
- ΑΚΑΤΑΛΗΠΤΟΝ — incomprehensible, incomprehensible thing, an incomprehensible thing, that which cannot be apprehended, that which cannot be grasped
- ΑΚΑΤΑΛΗΠΤΟΣ — incomprehensible, incomprehensible, unsearchable, that cannot be apprehended, that cannot be understood
- ΑΚΑΤΕΛΑ — incomprehensible, unsearchable, that cannot be laid hold of, that cannot be apprehended
- ΩΣἈΚΑΤΑΛΗΠΤΟΝ — as ungraspable, as incomprehensible, as impregnable, an ungraspable thing, an incomprehensible thing, an impregnable thing
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