ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΟΥΝΤΕΣ, καλλιερουντες
KALLIEROUNTES, kallierountes
Sounds Like: kal-lee-eh-ROO-n-tes
Translations: performing good sacrifices, sacrificing well, offering acceptable sacrifices, making propitious sacrifices
From the root: ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'performing good sacrifices' or 'sacrificing well'. It is a compound word derived from 'καλός' (good, beautiful) and 'ἱερεύω' (to sacrifice). It describes the act of offering sacrifices in a manner that is pleasing or acceptable, often implying a successful or propitious outcome for the worshipper. It is used to describe the action of those who are in the process of making such offerings.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G2561 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
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
- ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having offered a beautiful sacrifice, having sacrificed successfully, having performed a propitious sacrifice
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