ΚΑΤΑΔΥΝΤΕΣΔΙΕΛΑΝΘΑΝΟΝ, καταδυντεσδιελανθανον
KATADYNTESDIELANTHANON, katadyntesdielanthanon
Sounds Like: kah-tah-DYN-tes-dee-eh-LAN-thah-non
Translations: having sunk, they were escaping notice; having gone down, they were escaping notice; having submerged, they were escaping notice
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΔΥΩ, ΔΙΑΛΑΝΘΑΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound word formed by combining the aorist active participle of ΚΑΤΑΔΥΩ (katadyō), meaning 'to sink' or 'to go down,' and the imperfect active indicative of ΔΙΑΛΑΝΘΑΝΩ (dialanthanō), meaning 'to escape notice' or 'to be unnoticed.' The combined meaning indicates that someone, after having sunk or gone down, was in the process of escaping notice or remaining hidden. It describes an action of submerging followed by a state of being unobserved.
Inflection: Compound word: ΚΑΤΑΔΥΝΤΕΣ is a Masculine, Nominative, Plural, Aorist Active Participle; ΔΙΕΛΑΝΘΑΝΟΝ is a Third Person, Plural, Imperfect Active Indicative.
Strong’s numbers: G2666 (Lookup on BibleHub), G1224 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 17:24
From the same root
No other words from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΔΥΩ, ΔΙΑΛΑΝΘΑΝΩ, appear in our texts.
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