ΝΗΨΑΝΤΕΣ, νηψαντες
NĒPSANTES, nēpsantes
Sounds Like: NAY-psan-tes
Translations: being sober, having become sober, being watchful, having become watchful, being self-controlled, having become self-controlled
From the root: ΝΗΦΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: ΝΗΨΑΝΤΕΣ is the masculine nominative plural aorist active participle of the verb νήφω (nēphō). It means "having become sober" or "being watchful." It describes a state of clear-headedness, self-control, and vigilance, often in a spiritual or moral sense, implying a departure from intoxication or carelessness. It can be used to describe a group of people who have adopted this state.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine, Aorist Active Participle
Strong’s number: G3525 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 11 — 3:42
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΗΦΩ.
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.
- ΝΗΦ — be sober, be temperate, be watchful, be self-controlled
- ΝΗΦΕ — be sober, be watchful, be self-controlled, be temperate
- ΝΗΦΕΙΝ — to be sober, to be self-controlled, to be temperate, to be watchful
- ΝΗΦΟΝΤΕΣ — being sober, sober, being temperate, temperate
- ΝΗΦΟΝΤΙ — (to) a sober one, (to) one who is sober, (to) a vigilant one, (to) one who is vigilant
- ΝΗΦΩ — be sober, be temperate, be calm, be self-controlled
- ΝΗΦΩΜΕ — let us be sober, let us be self-controlled, let us be temperate, let us be calm, let us be watchful
- ΝΗΦΩΜΕΝ — let us be sober, let us be self-controlled, let us be temperate, let us be watchful
- ΝΗΦΩΝ — sober, watchful, vigilant, a sober one, a watchful one
- ΝΗΨ — sober, temperate, watchful, alert
- ΝΗΨΑΤΕ — be sober, sober up, be self-controlled, be watchful, be vigilant
- ΝΗΨΩΜΕΝ — let us be sober, let us be watchful, let us be self-controlled
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