ἈΣΜΕΝΙΣΑΝ, ἀσμενισαν
ASMENISAN, asmenisan
Sounds Like: as-MEH-nee-san
Translations: they were glad, they rejoiced, they were well pleased
From the root: ἈΣΜΕΝΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the action of being glad, pleased, or rejoicing. It implies a sense of welcoming or finding something agreeable. In a sentence, it would be used to indicate that a group of people felt joy or satisfaction about something.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Active, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G795 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 9:227
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΜΕΝΙΖΩ.
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.
- ἈΣΜΕΝΙΖΕΙΝ — to be glad, to be pleased, to be content, to be well-pleased
- ἈΣΜΕΝΙΣΑΝΤΩΝ — of those who rejoiced, of those who were glad, of those who welcomed gladly
- ἨΣΜΕΝΙΣΑΝ — rejoiced, were glad, were well pleased
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