ἘΚΒΙΑΖΟΜΕΝΟΙ, ἐκβιαζομενοι
EKBIAZOMENOI, ekbiazomenoi
Sounds Like: ek-bee-AH-zo-meh-noy
Translations: forcing, compelling, doing violence, pressing, being forced, being compelled
From the root: ΕΚΒΙΑΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word describes the act of forcing, compelling, or doing violence to someone or something. As a participle, it functions like an adjective or adverb, describing an action that is ongoing or habitual. It can imply a strong, often aggressive, exertion of pressure or power. It is a compound word formed from 'ἐκ' (out of, from) and 'βιάζω' (to force, to do violence).
Inflection: Present, Middle or Passive Voice, Masculine, Nominative, Plural
Strong’s number: G1542 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 7:11
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 5:8
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΚΒΙΑΖΩ.
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.
- ἘΚΒΙΑΖΕΤΑΙ — forces, compels, constrains, does violence to, presses, exacts
- ἘΚΒΙΑΖΟΜΕΝΟΝ — forcing, compelling, doing violence to, a forcing, a compelling
- ἘΚΒΙΑΖΩΝΤΑΙ — they force, they compel, they extort, they take by force
- ἘΚΒΙΑΣΑΙ — force, compel, press, urge
- ἘΚΒΙΑΣΘΕΙΣ — having been forced, having been compelled, having been constrained
- ἘΚΒΙΑΣΘΕΝΤΕΣ — forced, compelled, constrained, having been forced, those who were forced
- ἘΞΕΒΙΑΖΟΝΤΟ — they were forcing, they were compelling, they were pressing, they were urging
- ἘΞΕΒΙΑΣΑΝΤΟ — they forced, they compelled, they constrained
- ἘΞΕΒΙΑΣΑΤΟ — forced, compelled, did violence to, extorted
- ΕΚΒΙΑΖΕΤΑΙ — he forces, he compels, he extorts, he uses violence, he presses
- ΕΚΒΙΑΖΩ — to force, to compel, to extort, to press, to exact
- ΕΞΕΒΙΑΖΟΝΤΟ — they were trying to force, they were trying to compel, they were trying to press, they were trying to urge, they were trying to constrain
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