ΜΑΛΑΞΑΙ, μαλαξαι
MALAXAI, malaxai
Sounds Like: mah-LAK-sai
Translations: to soften, to make soft, to mollify, to relax, to soothe
From the root: ΜΑΛΑΣΣΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word refers to the act of making something soft or pliable. It can also mean to relax or soothe. As an aorist infinitive, it indicates a completed action of softening or relaxing, often used to express purpose or result.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G3146 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 8:23
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΑΛΑΣΣΩ.
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.
- ἘΜΑΛΑΞΕ — he/she/it softened, he/she/it made soft, he/she/it soothed, he/she/it relaxed
- ΜΑΛΑΧΘΕΝΤΟΣ — of having been softened, of having been made soft, of having been relaxed
- ΠΑΛΥΝΘΗΣΑΝ — they were softened, they were made smooth, they were made gentle
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