ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΣ, ἐπαινεσας
EPAINESAS, epainesas
Sounds Like: eh-py-NEH-sas
Translations: having praised, after praising, when he praised, he praised
From the root: ἘΠΑΙΝΕΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle derived from the verb 'ἐπαινέω' (epaineō), meaning 'to praise' or 'to commend'. As a participle, it describes an action that occurred prior to or concurrently with the main verb of the sentence, often functioning adverbially to indicate cause, time, or manner. In this form, it specifically refers to a masculine singular subject who performed the action of praising.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Aorist Active Participle
Strong’s number: G1867 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:189, 1:195, 1:206, 1:208, 1:213, 1:225, 1:234, 1:240, 1:246, 1:247, 1:265, 1:291
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 10:183
- Book 5 — 1:114
- Book 11 — 6:246
- Book 12 — 6:182, 6:189, 6:195, 6:200
- Book 16 — 7:218
- Book 19 — 1:59
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 16:9
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 2:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΑΙΝΕΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙ — praise, commend, approve, applaud
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙΝ — to praise, to commend, to approve, to applaud
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙΣΘΑΙ — to praise, to commend, to approve, to applaud
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙΣΘΕ — you are praised, be praised, you are commended, be commended
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙΣΘΩ — let it be praised, let it be commended, let it be lauded
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΙΤΑΙ — is praised, is commended, is lauded
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΙ — to praise, to commend, to approve
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΝΤΟΣ — (of) praising, (of) commending, (of) approving
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΝΤΩΝ — of those who praised, of those who commended, of those who approved
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΣΔΕ — having praised, and having praised, but having praised
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΑΤΩΣΑΝ — let them praise, they should praise
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΕΙ — he will praise, she will praise, it will praise
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΗΣ — you may praise, you might praise, you should praise, you would praise
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be praised, will be commended, will be lauded
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will praise, they will commend, they will approve
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΣΩ — I will praise, I will commend, I will approve
- ἘΠΑΙΝΕΩ — praise, commend, approve, applaud
- ἘΠΑΙΝΟΥΝΤΑΣ — praising, commending, approving, those praising, those commending, those approving
- ἘΠΑΙΝΟΥΝΤΕΣ — praising, commending, approving
- ἘΠΑΙΝΟΥΣΙ — they praise, they commend, they approve
- ἘΠΑΙΝΩΝ — praising, commending, approving
- ἘΠΗΝΕΙ — he praised, she praised, it praised, he was praising, she was praising, it was praising
- ἘΠΗΝΕΣΑ — I praised, I commended, I approved
- ἘΠΗΝΕΣΕ — he praised, she praised, it praised, he commended, she commended, it commended
- ἘΠΗΝΕΣΕΝ — praised, commended, approved
- ἘΠΗΝΟΥΜΗΝ — I was being praised, I was praised, I was being commended, I was commended
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