ἘΠΙΚΟΣΜΗΣΑΣ, ἐπικοσμησας
EPIKOSMĒSAS, epikosmēsas
Sounds Like: eh-pee-kos-MAY-sas
Translations: having adorned, having embellished, having decorated, having beautified
From the root: ΕΠΙΚΟΣΜΕΩ
Part of Speech: Participle, Verb
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle of the verb ἐπικοσμέω (epikosmeō), meaning 'to adorn' or 'to embellish'. It is a compound word formed from the preposition ἐπί (epi), meaning 'upon' or 'in addition to', and the verb κοσμέω (kosmeō), meaning 'to arrange', 'to order', or 'to adorn'. As a participle, it describes an action that has been completed, often functioning like an adjective or adverb, indicating that someone or something has performed the action of adorning or embellishing.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Participle, Masculine, Nominative, Singular
Strong’s number: G1942 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 3:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΚΟΣΜΕΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΕΚΟΣΜΟΥΝ — they were adorning, they were beautifying, they were decorating
- ἘΠΙΚΟΣΜΩΝ — adorning, beautifying, decorating, embellishing
- ΕΠΙΚΟΣΜΕΩ — to adorn, to beautify, to decorate
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