ἈΠΑΤΗΣΕΙΝ, ἀπατησειν
APATĒSEIN, apatēsein
Sounds Like: ah-pah-TAY-seen
Translations: to deceive, to cheat, to mislead, to trick
From the root: ἈΠΑΤΆΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means 'to deceive' or 'to cheat'. It is used to describe the act of misleading someone, often with malicious intent or for personal gain. It can be used in sentences like 'He tried to deceive them' or 'They were deceived by his words'.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0538 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΑΤΆΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΑΤΑΝ — to deceive, to mislead, to cheat, to trick
- ἈΠΑΤΑΤΕ — deceive, mislead, cheat, beguile
- ἈΠΑΤΑΤΩ — let him deceive, he should deceive, deceive
- ἈΠΑΤΗΘΕΙΣ — deceived, having been deceived, being deceived
- ἈΠΑΤΗΘΗΣ — be deceived, be led astray, be cheated
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΑΙ — to deceive, to cheat, to trick
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having deceived, those who deceived, they who deceived
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΑΣ — deceiving, having deceived, misleading, having misled, beguiling, having beguiled
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΕΙΣ — you will deceive, you will mislead, you will trick
- ἈΠΑΤΩΜΕΝΟΙ — deceived, being deceived, deluded, misled, cheated, beguiled
- ἈΠΑΤΩΜΕΝΟΣ — deceiving, being deceived, misleading, being misled, beguiling, being beguiled
- ἈΠΑΤΩΝΤΟΣ — of deceiving, of misleading, of cheating, of beguiling
- ἈΠΑΤΩΣΙΝ — they may deceive, they might deceive, they deceive
- ἨΠΑΤΑ — deceived, was deceiving, cheated, was cheating, beguiled, was beguiling
- ἨΠΑΤΗΘΗ — was deceived, was beguiled, was misled, was cheated
- ἨΠΑΤΗΣΑΝ — they deceived, they cheated, they misled
- ἨΠΑΤΗΣΑΣ — you deceived, you cheated, you deluded
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