ΔΕΤΩ, δετω
DETŌ, detō
Sounds Like: DEH-toh
Translations: let him see, let her see, let it see, let him know, let her know, let it know
From the root: ΕἼΔΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is the third person singular aorist active imperative form of the verb ΕἼΔΩ (eido), meaning 'to see' or 'to know'. It functions as a command or permission for a third party, translating to 'let him/her/it see' or 'let him/her/it know'. It is used to express a wish or a command that someone should see or come to know something.
Inflection: Singular, Third Person, Aorist, Active, Imperative
Strong’s number: G1492 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 5:9
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕἼΔΩ.
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.
- ΕἸΔΑΜΕΝ — we saw, we have seen
- ἸΔΑΝ — seeing, having seen, when they saw, as they saw
- ἸΔΕΣ — see!, behold!, look!, lo!
- ἸΔΗΣ — you may see, you might see, you may know, you might know, you may perceive, you might perceive
- ἸΔΟΥΣΑΙ — seeing, having seen, perceiving, knowing
- ἸΔΩΜΕΝ — let us see, that we may see, we may see
- ἸΔΩΝ — seeing, having seen, when he saw, after seeing, when he had seen
- ἸΔΩΣΙ — they may see, they might see, they see
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