ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΗ, ἐπισφαλη
EPISPHALĒ, episphalē
Sounds Like: ep-is-fa-LEH
Translations: dangerous, perilous, risky, precarious, unstable, insecure
From the root: ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is dangerous, unstable, or insecure, implying a risk of falling or failure. It is used to characterize situations, conditions, or things that are not firm or reliable, and thus pose a threat or are likely to lead to an undesirable outcome.
Inflection: Nominative, Accusative, or Vocative; Neuter, Plural OR Nominative, Accusative, or Vocative; Feminine, Singular
Strong’s number: G2078 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 5 — 2:139
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΗΣ.
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.
- ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΕΙΣ — dangerous, unsafe, perilous, precarious, uncertain, unstable, risky
- ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΕΣ — dangerous, perilous, unsafe, precarious, risky
- ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΕΣΤΕΡΟΝ — more dangerous, more precarious, more unstable, a more dangerous thing
- ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΟΥΣ — dangerous, perilous, unsafe, hazardous, a dangerous thing
- ἘΠΙΣΦΑΛΩΣ — precariously, dangerously, uncertainly, unsteadily, insecurely
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΕΙΣ — dangerous, unsafe, perilous, precarious, uncertain, unstable
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΕΣ — dangerous, unsafe, precarious, unstable, a dangerous thing, an unsafe thing
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΗΣ — unstable, dangerous, perilous, precarious, slippery, insecure
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΙΣ — dangerous, unsafe, precarious, unstable, slippery, uncertain
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΟΥΣ — of uncertain, of dangerous, of perilous, of unstable, of slippery
- ΕΠΙΣΦΑΛΩΣ — precariously, dangerously, uncertainly, insecurely, unsafely
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