ἈΠΑΤΕΩΝΕΣ, ἀπατεωνες
APATEŌNES, apateōnes
Sounds Like: ah-pah-TEH-oh-nes
Translations: deceivers, impostors, swindlers, charlatans
From the root: ἈΠΑΤΕΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to individuals who deceive, defraud, or mislead others. It describes someone who is a trickster or an impostor, often for personal gain or to manipulate a situation. It is used to characterize people who are dishonest and untrustworthy in their dealings.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0538 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 20 — 8:167
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΑΤΕΩΝ.
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.
- ἈΠΑΤΕΩΝ — deceiver, imposter, cheat, a deceiver
- ἈΠΑΤΕΩΝΑ — deceiver, impostor, swindler, a deceiver, an impostor, a swindler
- ἈΠΑΤΕΩΝΩΝ — of deceivers, of impostors, of swindlers
- ΤΟΥΣἈΠΑΤΕΩΝΑΣ — the deceivers, the imposters, the swindlers
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