ΔΗΩΘΗΝΑΙ, δηωθηναι
DĒŌTHĒNAI, dēōthēnai
Sounds Like: day-oh-THEE-nai
Translations: to be laid waste, to be ravaged, to be devastated, to be destroyed
From the root: ΔΗΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist passive infinitive form of the verb 'δηόω' (deoo), meaning 'to lay waste' or 'to ravage'. As an infinitive, it functions like a verbal noun, often used with prepositions or as the object of another verb. In the passive voice, it indicates that the subject is the one being acted upon, meaning 'to be ravaged' or 'to be destroyed'. It describes the act of a place or thing being subjected to destruction or devastation.
Inflection: Aorist, Passive, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G1213 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 14 — 5:81
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΗΟΩ.
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.
- ΔΗΟΥΜΕΝΗΝ — laying waste, being laid waste, ravaging, being ravaged, destroying, being destroyed
- ΔΗΟΥΝΤΕΣ — laying waste, ravaging, destroying, wasting, devastating
- ΔΗΟΥΝΤΟΣ — of destroying, of laying waste, of ravaging, of devastating
- ΔΗΩΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having ravaged, having devastated, having plundered, having laid waste
- ΔΗΩΣΑΣ — having ravaged, having devastated, having laid waste, having plundered
- ΔΗΩΣΟΝ — to lay waste, to ravage, to destroy, to devastate
- ΔΗΩΣΟΝΤΑ — about to devastate, about to lay waste, about to destroy
- ἘΔΗΟΥ — laid waste, ravaged, plundered, devastated
- ἘΔΗΩΣΑΝ — they ravaged, they plundered, they laid waste
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