ΚΑΤΑΚΟΝΤΙΖΟΝΤΑΣ, κατακοντιζοντας
KATAKONTIZONTAS, katakontizontas
Sounds Like: kah-tah-kon-TEE-zon-tas
Translations: shooting down, striking down, piercing through, throwing down, slaying
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΚΟΝΤΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'shooting down' or 'striking down'. It describes an action of forcefully bringing something or someone down, often with a projectile or weapon. It is a compound word formed from κατά (kata, 'down') and κοντίζω (kontizō, 'to throw a javelin or spear').
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine or Feminine, Plural
Strong’s number: G2692 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
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, ΚΑΤΑΚΟΝΤΙΖΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΚΟΝΤΙΖΩ — to pierce through, to transfix, to shoot down, to strike down
- ΚΑΤΑΚΟΝΤΙΣΑΙ — to spear, to pierce with a javelin, to strike down, to kill with a spear
- ΚΑΤΑΚΟΝΤΙΣΘΗΝΑΙ — to be shot down, to be pierced, to be struck down
- ΚΑΤΗΚΟΝΤΙΖΟΝ — they were spearing, they were throwing javelins at, they were shooting down
- ΚΑΤΗΚΟΝΤΙΖΟΝΤΟ — they were being speared, they were being shot down, they were being pierced, they were being struck down
- ΚΑΤΗΚΟΝΤΙΣΑΝ — they speared, they pierced, they struck down, they killed with a spear
- ΚΑΤΗΚΟΝΤΙΣΕΝ — he shot down, he pierced, he struck down, he slew with a spear, he killed with an arrow
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