2001 Translation

APATĒ, apatē

Sounds Like: ah-PAH-tay

Translations: deceit, a deceit, deception, a deception, delusion, a delusion, error, an error

From the root: ἈΠΑΤΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to deceit, deception, or delusion. It describes the act of misleading someone or the state of being misled. It can be used to refer to a trick, a lie, or a false belief that causes someone to err.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Accusative, Dative, or Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G0539 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:34

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 25:200
• Book Two — 25:200

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 4 — 6:107
• Book 7 — 1:32
• Book 8 — 11:280
• Book 9 — 6:134
• Book 12 — 1:4, 5:248
• Book 13 — 6:188, 6:204
• Book 17 — 12:336

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 21:27
• Book Four — 7:3
• Book Five — 3:23

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 54:1

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 9:40

The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments

• Mandate 8 — 1:5

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 6 — 5:3
• Parable 9 — 15:2

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 13:22
• Mark — 4:19
• 2 Thessalonians — 2:10
• Hebrews — 3:13

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΑΤΗ.

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.

• ἈΠΑΤΗΝ — deceit, a deceit, deception, a deception, delusion, a delusion, fraud, a fraud
• ἈΠΑΤΗΣ — of deceit, of deception, of fraud, of delusion

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