ἘΠΑΛΑΙΕΝ, ἐπαλαιεν
EPALAIEN, epalaien
Sounds Like: eh-PAH-lie-en
Translations: he wrestled, he struggled
From the root: ΠΑΛΑΙΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the action of wrestling or struggling, often in a physical sense, but it can also imply a struggle against difficulties or adversaries. It is used to describe a past action performed by a single male or unspecified subject.
Inflection: Imperfect Indicative, Active Voice, Third Person Singular
Strong’s number: G3823 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 58:6
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 32:24
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΛΑΙΩ.
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.
- ἈΝΤΕΠΑΛΑΙΣΑΝ — they wrestled against, they struggled against, they contended against, they resisted
- ΔΙΕΠΑΛΑΙΕΝ — he wrestled, he struggled, he contended
- ἘΠΑΛΑΙΕ — he wrestled, he struggled
- ἘΠΑΛΑΙΣΕ — he wrestled, he struggled
- ἘΠΑΛΑΙΣΕΝ — he wrestled, he struggled, he contended
- ΠΑΛΑΙΕΙΝ — to wrestle, to struggle, to contend
- ΠΑΛΑΙΣΑΣ — wrestled, having wrestled, to wrestle
- ΠΑΛΑΙΩ — to make old, to become old, to grow old, to wear out, to decay, to be worn out
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