ΔΙΕΣΕΙΣΘΗΜΕΝ, διεσεισθημεν
DIESEISTHĒMEN, dieseisthēmen
Sounds Like: dee-eh-see-SEES-thay-men
Translations: we were shaken, we were thoroughly shaken, we were agitated
From the root: ΔΙΑΣΕΙΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from the prefix 'δια-' (dia-), meaning 'through' or 'thoroughly', and the verb 'σείω' (seiō), meaning 'to shake'. It describes being thoroughly shaken, agitated, or made to tremble, often implying a strong or violent movement. It can be used to describe physical shaking or a more metaphorical sense of being disturbed or unsettled.
Inflection: First Person Plural, Aorist, Indicative, Passive
Strong’s number: G1286 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:90
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΙΑΣΕΙΩ.
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.
- ΔΙΑΣΕΙΟΥΣΙ — they shake, they shake violently, they agitate, they extort
- ΔΙΑΣΕΙΣΗΤΕ — extort, defraud, shake violently, intimidate, exact
- ΔΙΑΣΕΙΣΘΕΝΤΕΣ — having been shaken, having been extorted, having been intimidated
- ΔΙΑΣΕΙΣΘΕΝΤΩΝ — of those who were shaken, of those who were stirred up, of those who were agitated, of those who were intimidated
- ΔΙΑΣΕΙΣΘΗΝΑΙ — to shake violently, to extort, to intimidate
- ΔΙΑΣΕΙΩ — to extort, to shake violently, to intimidate, to oppress
- ΔΙΕΣΕΙΟΝ — shook, was shaking, was extorting, extorted
- ΔΙΕΣΕΙΣΕΝ — shook, shook violently, shook thoroughly, agitated, extorted
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