ἘΠΙΤΕΜΝΟΝΤΕΣ, ἐπιτεμνοντες
EPITEMNONTES, epitemnontes
Sounds Like: ep-ee-TEM-non-tes
Translations: cutting short, shortening, abridging, making brief, summarizing
From the root: ΕΠΙΤΕΜΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'cutting short' or 'abridging'. It describes an action that is ongoing or habitual. It is often used to indicate the act of making something briefer, whether it's a speech, a journey, or a process. For example, one might 'cut short' a discussion or 'abridge' a story.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G2046 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 7:19
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.
- ἘΠΕΤΕΜΝΕΤΟ — was being cut short, was being shortened, was being abridged, was being circumcised
- 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
- 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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