ΔΗΩΣΟΝΤΑ, δηωσοντα
DĒŌSONTA, dēōsonta
Sounds Like: day-oh-SOHN-tah
Translations: about to devastate, about to lay waste, about to destroy
From the root: ΔΗΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a future active participle, indicating an action that is about to happen. It describes someone or something that is on the verge of devastating, laying waste, or destroying. It functions adjectivally, modifying a noun or pronoun, and can also be used substantively (as a noun) to refer to 'those who are about to devastate'.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine or Feminine, Future Active Participle
Strong’s number: G1214 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 3:4
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
- ΔΗΩΘΗΝΑΙ — to be laid waste, to be ravaged, to be devastated, to be destroyed
- 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
- ἘΔΗΟΥ — laid waste, ravaged, plundered, devastated
- ἘΔΗΩΣΑΝ — they ravaged, they plundered, they laid waste
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