ἘΚΦΟΒΩΝ, ἐκφοβων
EKPHOBŌN, ekphobōn
Sounds Like: ek-fo-BOHN
Translations: frightening, terrifying, scaring away, the one who frightens, a frightening one
From the root: ΕΚΦΟΒΕΩ
Part of Speech: Participle, Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'frightening' or 'terrifying'. It describes someone or something that causes fear or drives away through fear. It can function as an adjective, describing a noun, or as a noun itself, referring to 'the one who frightens' or 'a frightening one'. It is a compound word formed from the preposition 'ἐκ' (ek), meaning 'out of' or 'from', and the verb 'φοβέω' (phobeō), meaning 'to fear' or 'to frighten'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Present, Active, Participle
Strong’s number: G1630 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 100:5
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 9:11
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Leviticus — 26:6
- Deuteronomy — 28:26
- Judith — 16:25
- 1 Maccabees — 14:12
- Ezekiel — 34:28, 39:26
- Micah — 4:4
- Nahum — 2:12
- Zephaniah — 3:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΚΦΟΒΕΩ.
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.
- ἘΚΦΟΒΕΙ — to frighten, to terrify, to scare away
- ἘΚΦΟΒΕΙΣ — you frighten, you terrify, you scare
- ἘΚΦΟΒΗΣΑΣΑ — having terrified, having frightened greatly
- ΕΚΦΟΒΕΙΣ — you frighten, you terrify, you scare away
- ΕΚΦΟΒΕΩ — to frighten out, to terrify, to scare away, to make afraid
- ΕΚΦΟΒΗΣΑΣΑ — having terrified, having frightened, having scared
- ΕΚΦΟΒΙΝ — to terrify, to frighten, to scare
- ΕΚΦΟΒΙΣ — to frighten, to terrify, to scare, to alarm
- ΕΚΦΟΒΟΥΝΤΑ — terrifying, frightening, causing fear, to be terrified, to be frightened
- ΕΚΦΟΒΟΥΣΑ — frightening, terrifying, causing fear, scaring
- ΕΚΦΟΒΩ — to frighten, to terrify, to scare away
- ΕΚΦΟΒΩΝ — terrifying, frightening, causing fear, one who terrifies
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