ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ, καλλιερησαντες
KALLIERĒSANTES, kallierēsantes
Sounds Like: kal-lee-eh-REH-san-tes
Translations: having offered a beautiful sacrifice, having sacrificed successfully, having performed a propitious sacrifice
From the root: ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΕΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound participle derived from 'καλός' (beautiful, good) and 'ἱερεύω' (to sacrifice). It describes the act of offering a sacrifice that is pleasing or propitious to the gods, indicating a successful or well-performed ritual. It implies that the sacrifice was accepted and brought about a favorable outcome.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Masculine, Nominative, Plural
Strong’s number: G2560 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 5:60
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΕΩ.
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.
- ἘΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΗΣΑΝ — they sacrificed successfully, they offered propitiously, they performed a good sacrifice
- ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΕΙΝ — to sacrifice successfully, to offer a propitious sacrifice, to perform a beautiful sacrifice, to perform a good sacrifice
- ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΕΩ — to sacrifice well, to offer a good sacrifice, to offer a beautiful sacrifice
- ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΟΥΝΤΕΣ — performing good sacrifices, sacrificing well, offering acceptable sacrifices, making propitious sacrifices
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