ΔΙΟΛΕΣΑΙ, διολεσαι
DIOLESAI, diolesai
Sounds Like: dee-oh-LEH-sai
Translations: to destroy, to perish, to be lost, to be ruined
From the root: ΔΙΑΠΟΛΛΥΜΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to utterly destroy, to ruin completely, or to cause to perish. It can also mean to be lost or to perish oneself. It is a compound word formed from the preposition διά (dia), meaning 'through' or 'completely', and the verb ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi), meaning 'to destroy' or 'to lose'.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G1311 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Wisdom — 11:19
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 14:306
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Wisdom — 11:19
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΙΑΠΟΛΛΥΜΙ.
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.
- ΔΙΩΛΛΥΝΤΟ — were perishing, were being destroyed, were being utterly ruined
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