ἈΠΕΙΛΩΝ, ἀπειλων
APEILŌN, apeilōn
Sounds Like: ah-pei-LON
Translations: threatening, one who threatens, to threaten
From the root: ἈΠΕΙΛΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle of the verb 'ἀπειλέω', meaning 'to threaten' or 'to menace'. It describes an action that is ongoing or habitual. As a participle, it can function adjectivally (describing someone who is threatening) or adverbially (indicating the manner or circumstance of an action, e.g., 'while threatening'). It conveys the idea of expressing an intention to inflict harm or punishment.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G0546 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:31
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 83:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΕΙΛΕΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΕΙΛΕΙ — he threatens, he warns, he forbids
- ἈΠΕΙΛΕΙΣ — you threaten, you are threatening
- ἈΠΕΙΛΕΙΤΑΙ — is threatened, is warned
- ἈΠΕΙΛΗΘΗΝΑΙ — to be threatened, to be menaced
- ἈΠΕΙΛΗΣΑΙ — to threaten, to warn
- ἈΠΕΙΛΗΣΑΝΤΑ — threatening, having threatened, who threatened
- ἈΠΕΙΛΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having threatened, who threatened, they threatened
- ἈΠΕΙΛΗΣΑΝΤΟΣ — of threatening, of having threatened, of warning, of having warned
- ἈΠΕΙΛΗΣΑΣ — having threatened, threatening
- ἈΠΕΙΛΗΣΕΙ — he will threaten, she will threaten, it will threaten
- ἈΠΕΙΛΗΣΩΜΕΘΑ — we may threaten, let us threaten, we should threaten
- ἈΠΕΙΛΟΥΜΕΝΗΣ — of being threatened, of being menaced
- ἈΠΕΙΛΟΥΜΕΝΟΙΣ — to those being threatened, by those being threatened, with those being threatened
- ἈΠΕΙΛΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ — being threatened, one who is threatened, threatening
- ἈΠΕΙΛΟΥΜΕΝΟΥ — threatening, being threatened, of one threatening, of one being threatened
- ἈΠΕΙΛΟΥΝΤΕΣ — threatening, to threaten, while threatening, those who threaten
- ἈΠΕΙΛΟΥΝΤΟΣ — of threatening, of one who threatens, of one threatening
- ἈΠΕΙΛΟΥΝΤΩΝ — of those threatening, of those who threaten, of those who are threatening
- ἈΠΕΙΛΟΥΣΑ — threatening, one who threatens, she who threatens
- ἈΠΕΙΛΟΥΣΙΝ — they threaten, they are threatening
- ΤΟΝἈΠΕΙΛΟΥΜΕΝΟΝ — the one being threatened, the threatened one, a threatened one
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