ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΑ, ἐσθιοντα
ESTHIONTA, esthionta
Sounds Like: ess-THEE-on-tah
Translations: eating, devouring, consuming, those who are eating, the ones eating
From the root: ἘΣΘΙΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'eating' or 'devouring'. It describes an ongoing action and functions like an adjective, modifying a noun or pronoun. It can be translated as 'the one eating' or 'those who are eating' depending on the context. It is often used to describe people or animals in the act of consuming food.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G2068 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 15:11
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Romans — 14:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΣΘΙΩ.
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.
- ἘΔΩΝ — eating, having eaten
- ἘΣΘΙΕΙΣ — you eat, you are eating
- ἘΣΘΙΕΣΘΑΙ — to be eaten, to eat
- ἘΣΘΙΗ — eat, may eat, should eat, to eat
- ἘΣΘΙΗΤΕ — eat, you eat
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝ — eating, while eating, one who eats
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΑΣ — eating, those eating, who are eating
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΕΣ — eating, those eating, while eating
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΟΣ — (of) eating, (of) one eating, (of) him eating
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΩΝ — of eating, of those eating, of them eating
- ἘΣΘΙΩ — eat, consume, devour, partake
- ἘΣΘΟΝΤΩΝ — of eating, of those eating, of having eaten, of those having eaten
- ἨΣΘΙΟΜΕΝ — we were eating, we ate
- ἨΣΘΙΟΝ — they were eating, they ate, I was eating, I ate
- ἨΣΘΟΣΑΝ — they ate, they did eat
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