ἈΝΑΣΤΕΙΛΑΙ, ἀναστειλαι
ANASTEILAI, anasteilai
Sounds Like: ah-nah-STEL-lai
Translations: to restrain, to hold back, to check, to hinder, to prevent
From the root: ANASTELLO
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to restrain, hold back, or check something. It implies an action of stopping or preventing movement, progress, or an event. It can be used in contexts where one is trying to hinder an action or keep something from happening.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0393 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 1:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ANASTELLO.
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.
- ΑΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ — to send up, to send back, to restrain, to hinder, to check, to draw back, to shrink back
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