ἘΠΙΛΑΘΕΣΘΑΙ, ἐπιλαθεσθαι
EPILATHESTHAI, epilathesthai
Sounds Like: eh-pee-lah-THEH-sthai
Translations: to forget, to neglect, to overlook
From the root: ἘΠΙΛΑΝΘΑΝΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb, formed from the preposition 'ἐπί' (upon, over) and the verb 'λανθάνω' (to escape notice, to be hidden). It means to forget, to neglect, or to overlook something. It often implies a complete or deliberate act of forgetting, or a failure to remember due to neglect. It can be used in sentences like 'He forgot the law' or 'They neglected their duties'.
Inflection: Aorist, Middle/Passive, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G1950 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 46:7
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 63:5
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Hebrews — 6:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΙΛΑΝΘΑΝΟΜΑΙ.
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.
- ἘΠΕΛΑΝΘΑΝΕΤΟ — forgot, was forgetting, neglected, was neglecting
- ἘΠΙΛΑΘΟΜΕΝΟΣ — forgetting, having forgotten, to forget, to have forgotten
- ἘΠΙΛΑΝΘΑΝΕΣΘΑΙ — to forget, to neglect
- ἘΠΙΛΑΝΘΑΝΟΜΕΝΑ — forgetting, those who forget, being forgotten
- ἘΠΙΛΑΝΘΑΝΟΜΕΝΟΙ — forgetting, those who forget, to forget, to be forgotten
- ἘΠΙΛΑΝΘΑΝΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ — forgetting, being forgotten, those who forget
- ἘΠΙΛΕΛΗΣΜΕΝΟΝ — forgotten, a forgotten thing
- ἘΠΙΛΗΣΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they will forget, they shall forget
- ἘΠΙΛΗΣΟΜΑΙ — I will forget, I shall forget
- ἘΠΙΛΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they will be forgotten
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