ἘΞΕΙΛΚΥΣΑΝ, ἐξειλκυσαν
EXEILKYSAN, exeilkysan
Sounds Like: ex-EEL-kyoo-san
Translations: drew out, dragged out, pulled out, enticed, lured
From the root: ἘΞΕΛΚΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to draw or drag something out, often implying force or effort. It can also be used metaphorically to mean to entice or lure someone away, as if dragging them from their proper course. In the provided form, it describes an action completed in the past by a group of people.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Active, Third Person, Plural
Strong’s number: G1828 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 17:44
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΞΕΛΚΩ.
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.
- ἘΞΕΛΚΗΣ — to draw out, to drag out, to entice, to lure, to extract
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