ΔΙΑΚΡΟΥΣΕΣΘΑΙ, διακρουσεσθαι
DIAKROUSESTHAI, diakrousesthai
Sounds Like: dee-ah-kroo-SEH-sthai
Translations: to strike through, to ward off, to repel, to avert, to break up, to interrupt
From the root: ΔΙΑΚΡΟΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This verb means to strike through, to ward off, or to repel. It can be used in a medical context to mean to break up or avert a disease. In a general sense, it describes an action of pushing something away or interrupting its course.
Inflection: Present, Middle/Passive, Infinitive
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 5:22
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΙΑΚΡΟΥΩ.
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.
- ΔΙΑΚΡΟΥΟΜΕΝΟΥ — being struck through, being refuted, being repelled, being driven away, being rejected, being turned aside
- ΔΙΑΚΡΟΥΣΑΜΕΝΟΣ — having struck through, having pushed through, having repelled, having broken through, having thrust aside, having driven off
- ΔΙΑΚΡΟΥΩ — to strike through, to break through, to break in pieces, to shatter
- ΔΙΕΚΡΟΥΣΑΝΤΟ — they warded off, they repelled, they drove away, they averted
- ΔΙΕΚΡΟΥΣΑΤΟ — he thrust through, he repelled, he drove away, he pushed away
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