ἘΣΘΙΩΝ, ἐσθιων
ESTHIŌN, esthiōn
Sounds Like: ess-THEE-ohn
Translations: eating, while eating, one who eats, he who eats
From the root: ἘΣΘΊΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'eating' or 'one who is eating'. It describes an ongoing action and functions like an adjective or adverb, modifying a noun or verb to indicate the subject is performing the action of eating. For example, it could be used in a phrase like 'he went, eating' to describe someone walking and eating at the same time.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Present, Active, Participle
Strong’s number: G2068 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 6:119
Pseudo-Baruch
- The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 4:5
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 11:18, 11:19
- Mark — 1:6, 14:18
- Luke — 7:33, 7:34
- Romans — 14:3, 14:6
- 1 Corinthians — 11:29
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΣΘΊΩ.
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.
- ἘΔΟΥΝΤΑΙ — they will be eaten, they will be consumed
- ἘΣΘΙΟΜΕΝΑ — things being eaten, things to be eaten, food
- ἨΣΘΙΕΝ — was eating, ate, did eat
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