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ΜΙΚΡΥΝΗΣ, μικρυνης
MIKRYNĒS, mikrynēs
Sounds Like: mik-ROO-nees
Translations: you may diminish, you may lessen, you may make small, you may humble
From the root: ΜΙΚΡΥΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to make small, to diminish, to lessen, or to humble. It is often used in the context of reducing something in size, quantity, or importance. In the given example, it is used in a prohibitive sense, meaning 'do not diminish' or 'do not lessen'.
Inflection: Second Person, Singular, Aorist, Subjunctive, Active
Strong’s number: G3465 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Sirach — 32:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΙΚΡΥΝΩ.
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.
- ΜΙΚΡΥΝΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be made small, will be diminished, will shrink, will become little
- ΜΙΚΡΥΝΩ — to make small, to make little, to lessen, to diminish, to humble, to be made small, to be made little, to be lessened, to be diminished, to be humbled
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