ΚΑΤΑΚΡΗΜΝΙΣΑΝΤΑ, κατακρημνισαντα
KATAKRĒMNISANTA, katakrēmnisanta
Sounds Like: kah-tah-kraym-NEE-san-tah
Translations: throwing down headlong, casting down, precipitating
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΚΡΗΜΝΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb, formed from the preposition κατά (kata, meaning 'down' or 'against') and the verb κρημνίζω (kremnizo, meaning 'to cast down from a height' or 'to throw over a precipice'). It describes the action of throwing someone or something down from a height, especially headlong, or casting them over a cliff or precipice. It implies a forceful and often destructive act of bringing something down.
Inflection: Aorist Active Participle, Accusative Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2657 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 12:15
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΚΡΗΜΝΙΖΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΚΡΗΜΝΙΕΙΝ — to throw down headlong, to cast down, to hurl down
- ΚΑΤΑΚΡΗΜΝΙΖΩ — to cast down headlong, to throw down a precipice, to hurl down
- ΚΑΤΑΚΡΗΜΝΙΣΑΙ — to cast down headlong, to throw down, to hurl down
- ΚΑΤΑΚΡΗΜΝΙΣΕΙΝ — to cast down headlong, to throw down, to hurl down
- ΚΑΤΑΚΡΗΜΝΙΣΘΗΝΑΙ — to be thrown down headlong, to be cast down, to be hurled down, to be cast down a precipice
- ΚΑΤΕΚΡΗΜΝΙΖΟΝ — they were casting down headlong, they were throwing down, they were hurling down
- ΚΑΤΕΚΡΗΜΝΙΖΟΝΤΟ — they were being thrown down headlong, they were being cast down, they were being hurled down
- ΚΑΤΕΚΡΗΜΝΙΣΕΝ — he threw down headlong, he cast down, he hurled down
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