ὈΚΝΕΙΝ, ὀκνειν
OKNEIN, oknein
Sounds Like: OK-neen
Translations: to hesitate, to delay, to shrink back, to be reluctant, to be afraid
From the root: ΟΚΝΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to hesitate, to delay, or to be reluctant to do something. It describes a state of indecision or unwillingness, often due to fear or apprehension. It can be used in sentences to express someone's reluctance to act or their tendency to procrastinate.
Inflection: Present Active Infinitive
Strong’s number: G3635 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΚΝΕΩ.
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.
- ὈΚΝΕΙ — hesitate, delay, shrink from, be reluctant, be afraid
- ὈΚΝΕΙΤΕ — hesitate, delay, shrink from, be afraid, be reluctant
- ὈΚΝΗΣΑΙ — to hesitate, to shrink from, to be reluctant, to delay
- ὈΚΝΗΣΑΙΜΙ — I would hesitate, I would shrink from, I would be afraid, I would be reluctant
- ὈΚΝΗΣΑΤΩ — let him hesitate, let her hesitate, let it hesitate, let him delay, let her delay, let it delay, let him be afraid, let her be afraid, let it be afraid
- ὈΚΝΗΣΗΣ — hesitate, delay, shrink from, be afraid, be reluctant
- ὈΚΝΗΣΗΤΕ — hesitate, delay, shrink from, be afraid, be slow
- ὈΚΝΗΣΩ — I will hesitate, I will delay, I will shrink back, I will be afraid
- ὈΚΝΟΥΝΤΑΣ — hesitating, shrinking back, delaying, being reluctant, being afraid
- ὈΚΝΟΥΝΤΕΣ — hesitating, delaying, shrinking back, being reluctant, being afraid
- ὈΚΝΟΥΝΤΩΝ — hesitating, shrinking, delaying, being reluctant, of those hesitating, of those shrinking, of those delaying, of those being reluctant
- ὈΚΝΩΝ — hesitating, delaying, shrinking back, being reluctant
- ΟΚΝ — to hesitate, to delay, to shrink from, to be reluctant
- ΟΚΝΕ — to hesitate, to delay, to shrink from, to be reluctant, to be afraid
- ΟΚΝΕΙΤΕ — you hesitate, you delay, you shrink from, you are reluctant
- ΟΚΝΕΩ — to hesitate, to delay, to shrink from, to be reluctant
- ΟΚΝΗΡΟΥΣΙΝ — they hesitate, they delay, they shrink from, they are reluctant
- ΟΚΝΗΣΑΤΩ — let him hesitate, let him delay, let him shrink back, let him be afraid
- ΟΚΝΙ — to hesitate, to delay, to shrink from, to be reluctant
- ὨΚΝΕΙ — hesitated, was reluctant, shrank from, delayed, was slow
- ὨΚΝΗΣΑ — I hesitated, I delayed, I shrank from, I was afraid
- ὨΚΝΗΣΑΝ — they hesitated, they were reluctant, they shrank from, they delayed
- ὨΚΝΗΣΑΣ — hesitated, did hesitate, shrank, did shrink, was afraid, was reluctant
- ὨΚΝΗΣΕΝ — he hesitated, she hesitated, it hesitated, he delayed, she delayed, it delayed, he shrunk back, she shrunk back, it shrunk back
- ὨΚΝΟΥΝ — hesitated, were hesitant, were reluctant, shrank from, were afraid
- ΩΚΝΗΣΑΣ — you hesitated, you shrunk back, you were afraid, you were reluctant
- ΩΚΝΗΣΕΝ — he hesitated, he was reluctant, he shrank back, he delayed
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