ἈΝΕΣΤΕΛΛΟΝ, ἀνεστελλον
ANESTELLON, anestellon
Sounds Like: ah-nes-TEL-lon
Translations: were restraining, were holding back, were checking, were hindering, were withdrawing, were turning back
From the root: ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the imperfect active indicative form of the verb ἀναστέλλω (anastellō). It describes an action that was ongoing or repeated in the past. The verb generally means to restrain, hold back, check, hinder, or to withdraw and turn back. It can be used to describe physically holding something or someone back, or metaphorically preventing an action or course of events.
Inflection: Imperfect, Active, Indicative, Third Person, Plural
Strong’s number: G0388 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 8:7
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ.
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.
- ἈΝΑΣΤΕΙΛΑΣ — having restrained, having held back, having checked, having stopped, having hindered
- ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΙ — restrain, hold back, check, hinder, suppress, prevent, turn back
- ἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΤΑΙ — is restrained, is held back, is checked, is hindered, is prevented, is withdrawn
- ἈΝΕΣΤΑΛΗ — was restrained, was held back, was stopped, was checked, was withdrawn
- ἈΝΕΣΤΑΛΗΣΑΝ — they were hindered, they were restrained, they were held back, they were stopped
- ἈΝΕΣΤΕΙΛΕΝ — restrained, held back, checked, withdrew, drew back, turned back
- ἈΝΕΣΤΕΛΛΕ — restrained, was restraining, checked, was checking, held back, was holding back, hindered, was hindering, stopped, was stopping, prevented, was preventing
- ἈΝΕΣΤΕΛΛΕΝ — he was restraining, he was checking, he was holding back, he was hindering, he was stopping
- ἈΝΕΣΤΕΛΛΟΝΤΟ — they were being restrained, they were holding back, they were restraining themselves, they were being held back
- ἨΝἈΝΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΙΝ — to restrain, to hold back, to check, to hinder, to prevent
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