ἘΠΙΣΤΑΜΕΝΟΙ, ἐπισταμενοι
EPISTAMENOI, epistamenoi
Sounds Like: ep-is-TAH-men-oy
Translations: knowing, understanding, being skilled, being acquainted with, those knowing, those understanding
From the root: ἘΠΙΣΤΑΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a participle derived from the verb 'epistamai', meaning 'to know' or 'to understand'. As a participle, it functions like an adjective or adverb, describing someone or something that possesses knowledge or understanding. It can be translated as 'knowing', 'understanding', or 'being skilled'. In a sentence, it might describe a group of people who are knowledgeable about a particular subject.
Inflection: Masculine, Nominative, Plural
Strong’s number: G1987 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 3:41
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΙΣΤΑΜΑΙ.
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.
- ἘΠΙΣΤΑΜΑΙ — know, understand, be acquainted with, be skilled in
- ἘΠΙΣΤΑΜΕΝΩΝ — of those knowing, of those understanding, of those skilled, of those acquainted
- ἘΠΙΣΤΑΝΤΑΙ — they know, they understand, they are acquainted with, they are skilled in
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