ἈΠΑΤΩΝΤΕΣ, ἀπατωντες
APATŌNTES, apatōntes
Sounds Like: ah-pah-TON-tes
Translations: deceiving, misleading, cheating, those deceiving, deceivers
From the root: ἈΠΑΤΑΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle derived from the verb ἀπατάω, meaning 'to deceive' or 'to mislead'. It describes an action that is currently happening or ongoing. As a participle, it can function like an adjective, modifying a noun, or substantively, acting as a noun itself (e.g., 'the ones who are deceiving' or 'deceivers').
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Masculine or Feminine or Neuter, Plural
Strong’s number: G0538 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 10 — 7:124
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΑΤΑΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΑΤΑ — deceive, mislead, trick, cheat
- ἈΠΑΤΑΣΘΑΙ — to deceive, to be deceived, to mislead, to be misled
- ἈΠΑΤΗΘΗ — to be deceived, to be led astray, to be cheated
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΑΝΤΑ — having deceived, one who deceived, a deceiver
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΟΝ — deceive, trick, beguile, mislead
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΩ — I will deceive, I will mislead, I will trick
- ἈΠΑΤΩΝ — deceiving, misleading, beguiling
- ἈΠΑΤΩΝΤΑΙ — they are deceived, they are misled, they are beguiled
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