ἘΝΑΠΕΘΝΗΣΚΟΝ, ἐναπεθνησκον
ENAPETHNĒSKON, enapethnēskon
Sounds Like: en-ah-pe-THNEES-kon
Translations: they were dying, they were perishing, they were dying in
From the root: ΘΝΗΊΣΚΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb, formed from the prefixes ἐν (en, meaning 'in' or 'among') and ἀπό (apo, meaning 'from' or 'away from'), combined with the verb θνῄσκω (thnēskō, meaning 'to die'). It describes an ongoing action in the past, indicating that a group of people were in the process of dying, often implying they were dying within a certain place or among others. It conveys a sense of continuous or repeated death.
Inflection: Imperfect Indicative, Active, Third Person Plural
Strong’s number: G599 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 7 — 13:326
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΝΗΊΣΚΩ.
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.
- ἘΘΑΝΕΝ — he died, she died, it died
- ἘΠΑΠΟΘΝΗΣΚΕΙ — to die with, to die upon, to die in addition to
- ἘΤΕΘΝΗΚΕΙΜΕΝ — we had died, we were dead
- ἘΤΕΘΝΗΚΕΣΑΝ — they had died, they were dead
- ΘΑΝΗ — die, to die, you die, he dies, she dies, it dies
- ΘΑΝΟΙ — may die, might die, perish
- ΘΑΝΟΝΤΑ — dying, dead, having died, the one dying, the one dead
- ΘΑΝΟΝΤΟΣ — (of) dying, (of) dead, (of) having died
- ΘΑΝΟΥΣΑΝ — dying, dead, a dying one, a dead one, having died
- ΘΝΗΣΚΗΣ — you die, you are dying, you are about to die
- ΠΡΟΤΕΘΝΗΚΕΝ — has died before, has died previously, has died already
- ΤΕΘΝΑΣΙΝ — they have died, they are dead
- ΤΕΘΝΕΩΣΙΝ — to the dead, to those who have died, to the ones who are dead
- ΤΕΘΝΕΩΤΑ — dead, having died, having been dead, a dead one
- ΤΕΘΝΗΚΕΙΤΕ — you have died, you died, be dead
- ΤΕΘΝΗΞΟΜΕΘΑ — we will have died, we shall have died
- ΤΕΘΝΗΞΟΜΕΝΟΙ — about to die, going to die, destined to die
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