ἘΠΕΤΕΜΝΕΤΟ, ἐπετεμνετο
EPETEMNETO, epetemneto
Sounds Like: eh-peh-TEM-neh-toh
Translations: was being cut short, was being shortened, was being abridged, was being circumcised
From the root: ΕΠΙΤΕΜΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes an action that was happening continuously in the past, indicating something was in the process of being cut short, shortened, abridged, or circumcised. It implies an ongoing or repeated action rather than a completed one. For example, 'The speech was being shortened' or 'He was being circumcised'.
Inflection: Imperfect, Indicative, Middle/Passive, Third Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G2030 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 25:27
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΤΕΜΝΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΕΤΕΤΜΗΤΟ — he was being cut short, she was being cut short, it was being cut short, he was being abridged, she was being abridged, it was being abridged, he was being circumcised, she was being circumcised, it was being circumcised
- ἘΠΙΤΕΜΕΙΝ — to cut short, to abridge, to shorten, to summarize
- ἘΠΙΤΕΜΝΕΙ — cuts short, abridges, curtails, shortens
- ἘΠΙΤΕΜΝΕΤΑΙ — it is cut short, it is shortened, it is abbreviated, it is curtailed
- ἘΠΙΤΕΜΝΟΝΤΕΣ — cutting short, shortening, abridging, making brief, summarizing
- ἘΠΙΤΕΜΟΜΕΝΟΣ — being cut short, having been cut short, cut short, abridged, curtailed
- ἘΠΙΤΕΤΜΗΜΕΝΟΣ — cut short, abbreviated, summarized, reduced, a cut short thing, an abbreviated thing
- ΕΠΕΤΕΜΝΕΤΟ — he was being cut, he was being circumcised, it was being cut short, it was being abbreviated
- ΕΠΙΤΕΜΝΩ — to cut short, to shorten, to abridge, to circumcise
- ΕΠΙΤΕΤΜΗΜΕΝΟΣ — cut short, shortened, abbreviated, concise, abridged
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