ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΙΛΑΙ, καταστειλαι
KATASTEILAI, katasteilai
Sounds Like: kah-tah-STEL-lai
Translations: to quiet, to calm, to suppress, to restrain, to put down, to check
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to quiet, calm, or suppress something, often referring to a disturbance, a riot, or a person's emotions. It implies bringing something under control or putting an end to disorder. For example, one might use it to describe quelling a rebellion or calming a crowd.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2692 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 19 — 5:279
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 9:35
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 47:244
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 4:31
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΛΕΝΤΩΝ — of those who have been quieted, of those who have been restrained, when they had been quieted, when they had been restrained
- ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΙΛΑΣ — having restrained, having quieted, having calmed, having put down
- ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΙ — he suppresses, she suppresses, it suppresses, he restrains, she restrains, it restrains, he calms, she calms, it calms, he puts down, she puts down, it puts down
- ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΙΝ — to restrain, to quiet, to suppress, to check, to calm, to put down
- ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ — to restrain, to quiet, to suppress, to calm, to put down
- ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΛΟΥΝΤΑΣ — restraining, quieting, suppressing, calming
- ΚΑΤΕΣΤΑΛΗΣΑΝ — they were restrained, they were quieted, they were suppressed, they were put down
- ΚΑΤΕΣΤΑΛΜΕΝΟΣ — calm, quiet, orderly, settled, having been calmed, having been quieted, having been settled
- ΚΑΤΕΣΤΑΛΜΕΝΟΥΣ — quiet, calm, orderly, settled, restrained, subdued
- ΚΑΤΕΣΤΑΛΜΕΝΩΝ — of those who have been quieted, of those who have been calmed, of those who have been restrained, of those who have been put down
- ΚΑΤΕΣΤΕΙΛΑΝ — they restrained, they suppressed, they quieted, they calmed, they put down
- ΚΑΤΕΣΤΕΛΛΕΝ — was restraining, was suppressing, was quieting, was calming, was putting down, was subduing
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