ΚΑΤΑΛΕΥΣΘΗΣΕΣΘΑΙ, καταλευσθησεσθαι
KATALEUSTHĒSESTHAI, kataleusthēsesthai
Sounds Like: kah-tah-le-oo-sthee-SEH-sthai
Translations: to be stoned to death, to be pelted with stones
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΛΕΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb, formed from the preposition κατά (kata), meaning 'down' or 'against', and the verb λεύω (leuo), meaning 'to stone'. Together, it means to stone someone to death or to pelt them with stones. It is used to describe the act of execution by stoning, a common form of capital punishment in ancient times, or simply to describe a violent assault involving throwing stones.
Inflection: Future, Passive, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2602 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 7:225
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΛΕΥΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΛΕΥΕΙΝ — to stone, to pelt with stones
- ΚΑΤΑΛΕΥΕΣΘΩ — let him be stoned, let it be stoned, to be stoned to death
- ΚΑΤΑΛΕΥΣΑΙ — to stone, to pelt with stones
- ΚΑΤΑΛΕΥΣΑΝΤΕΣ — stoning, having stoned, to stone, to pelt with stones
- ΚΑΤΑΛΕΥΣΘΕΙΣ — having been stoned, to be stoned, to be pelted with stones
- ΚΑΤΑΛΕΥΣΘΕΝΤΟΣ — (of) having been stoned, (of) having been pelted with stones
- ΚΑΤΑΛΕΥΩ — to stone, to stone to death
- ΚΑΤΕΛΕΥΣΑΝ — they stoned, they pelted with stones
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