ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΕΣ, ἐσθιοντες
ESTHIONTES, esthiontes
Sounds Like: ess-THEE-on-tess
Translations: eating, those eating, while eating
From the root: ἘΣΘΙΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle of the verb 'to eat'. It describes an ongoing action of eating and can function as an adjective, meaning 'those who are eating', or as an adverb, meaning 'while eating' or 'by eating'. It indicates a group of masculine individuals performing the action.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G2068 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 11:20
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 10:12
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΑ — eating, devouring, consuming, those who are eating, the ones eating
- ἘΣΘΙΟΝΤΑΣ — eating, those eating, who are 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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