ἘΜΒΡΕΞΑΙ, ἐμβρεξαι
EMBREXAI, embrexai
Sounds Like: em-BREX-ai
Translations: to wet, to soak, to drench, to dip
From the root: ΕΜΒΡΕΧΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to wet, soak, or drench something. It implies thoroughly saturating an object with liquid. It can be used in contexts where clothes are soaked or a person is drenched.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G1708 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:56
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΜΒΡΕΧΩ.
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.
- ΕΜΒΡΕΧΩ — to wet, to moisten, to soak, to drench
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