ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΣΑΙ, ερμηνευσαι
ERMĒNEUSAI, ermēneusai
Sounds Like: her-may-NEV-sai
Translations: to interpret, to explain, to translate
From the root: ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an aorist infinitive form of the verb 'hermēneuō'. It means 'to interpret', 'to explain', or 'to translate'. As an infinitive, it functions like a verbal noun and can be used to express purpose, result, or as the object of another verb, similar to 'to do' in English.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2059 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:39
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΩ.
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.
- ΔΥΣΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΟΣ — hard to explain, difficult to interpret, hard to understand
- ΕΡΜΗΝ — interpret, explain, translate
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥ — to interpret, to translate, to explain, to make clear
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΕΤΑΙ — it is translated, it is interpreted, it means, it is explained
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΗ — to interpret, to translate, to explain, to expound
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΚΕΝΑΙ — to interpret, to translate, to explain, to make clear
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΜΕΝΗΝ — interpreted, translated, explained, a translated, an interpreted, an explained
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΟΜΕΝΟΝ — being interpreted, which means, translated
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΟΜΕΝΟΣ — being translated, being interpreted, being explained
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΣΑΝΤΑΣ — having interpreted, having translated, having explained
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΣΟΝΤΑΣ — those who will interpret, those who will explain, those who will translate, about to interpret, about to explain, about to translate
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΗΣ — interpreter, a interpreter, translator, a translator
- ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΩ — to interpret, to explain, to translate, to expound
- ΗΡΜΗΝΕΥΣΕ — he interpreted, he translated, he explained
- ΗΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΑΙ — it has been interpreted, it has been translated, it has been explained
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