ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΛΛΕΙΝ, καταστελλειν
KATASTELLEIN, katastellein
Sounds Like: kah-tah-STEL-line
Translations: to restrain, to quiet, to suppress, to check, to calm, to put down
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΛΛΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from κατά (kata, 'down' or 'against') and στέλλω (stellō, 'to send, to arrange, to prepare'). It means to bring something down or put it in order, often implying a forceful or authoritative action to suppress, quiet, or restrain. It is used to describe actions like quelling a disturbance, calming a crowd, or checking an impulse.
Inflection: Present Active Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2687 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
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
- ΚΑΤΑΣΤΕΙΛΑΙ — to quiet, to calm, to suppress, to restrain, to put down, to check
- 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
- 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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