ἘΜΠΙΠΡΑΝΤΕΣ, ἐμπιπραντες
EMPIPRANTES, empiprantes
Sounds Like: em-PIP-ran-tes
Translations: burning, setting on fire, kindling
From the root: ΠΙΜΠΡΑΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'burning' or 'setting on fire'. It describes an action that is currently happening or ongoing. It is often used to describe the act of destroying something by fire, such as a city or a building. It can function adjectivally, modifying a noun, or adverbially, describing how an action is performed.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Masculine, Nominative, Plural
Strong’s number: G1708 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 20 — 8:172
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΙΜΠΡΑΩ.
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.
- ΕΝΕΠΙΜΠΡΩΝ — they were burning, they were setting on fire, they were consuming by fire
- ΠΕΠΡΗΣΜΕΝΗΝ — burnt, swollen, inflamed, a burnt one, a swollen one, an inflamed one
- ΠΙΜΠΡΑΣΘΑΙ — to be burned, to be inflamed, to be set on fire
- ΠΙΜΠΡΑΤΑΙ — it is burned, it is set on fire, it is inflamed
- ΥΠΟΠΙΜΠΡΑΝΑΙ — to set on fire, to burn, to burn up, to set ablaze
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