ΕΡΠΕΙ, ερπει
ERPEI, erpei
Sounds Like: HER-pay
Translations: creeps, crawls, glides, moves slowly, spreads
From the root: ΕΡΠΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the action of moving slowly, often close to the ground, like a reptile or an insect. It can also refer to the slow, insidious spread of something, such as a disease or a rumor. It is used to describe the movement of creatures that crawl or slither.
Inflection: Present Indicative, Active, Third Person Singular
Strong’s number: G2062 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Deuteronomy — 4:18
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΡΠΩ.
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.
- ΕΙΡΠΕ — crept, crawled, spread, extended, advanced
- ΕΡΠ — creep, crawl, move slowly, go, come
- ΕΡΠΕ — creep, crawl, move slowly, go, come
- ΕΡΠΕΙΝ — to creep, to crawl, to slither, to move slowly, to go, to advance
- ΕΡΠΕΤ — creeping thing, a creeping thing, reptile, a reptile, serpent, a serpent
- ΕΡΠΗΣΤΙΚΟΝ — creeping, crawling, a creeping thing, a crawling thing
- ΕΡΠΗΣΤΙΚΟΣ — creeping, spreading, herpetic, pertaining to herpes
- ΕΡΠΟΝ — creeping, crawling, moving slowly, a creeping thing, a crawling thing
- ΕΡΠΟΝΤΑ — creeping, crawling, things that creep, things that crawl
- ΕΡΠΟΝΤΙ — to the one creeping, to the one crawling, to the one moving, to the one going, (to) creeping, (to) crawling, (to) moving, (to) going
- ΕΡΠΟΝΤΩΝ — of creeping things, of crawling things, of reptiles
- ΕΡΠΟΥΣΑ — creeping, crawling, a creeping thing, a crawling thing
- ΕΡΠΟΥΣΗΣ — of creeping, of crawling, of moving slowly, of a creeping thing, of a crawling thing
- ΕΡΠΟΥΣΙΝ — they creep, they crawl, they slither, they move on the ground
- ΕΡΠΩ — to creep, to crawl, to move slowly, to go, to advance
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