2001 Translation

PAISŌN, paisōn

Sounds Like: pai-SOHN

Translations: playing, sporting, jesting, dancing, a player, a jester

From the root: ΠΑΙΖΩ

Part of Speech: Verb, Participle

Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'playing,' 'sporting,' or 'jesting.' It describes someone who is currently engaged in an act of play or amusement. It can function like a verb, indicating an action, or like an adjective, describing a person or thing as 'playing' or 'sporting.'

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Present, Active, Participle

Strong’s number: G3815 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 17 — 7:184

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΙΖΩ.

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.

• ἘΠΑΙΖΕ — was playing, used to play, was sporting, used to sport, was amusing himself, used to amuse himself
• ἘΠΑΙΖΕΝ — he was playing, he played, he was making sport, he was jesting
• ἘΠΑΙΖΟΝΤΟ — were played, were made sport of, were mocked, were made fun of
• ΕΠΑΙΞΕΝ — played, mocked, made sport of, jested, danced
• ΠΑΙΖΕ — play, make sport, mock, jest, amuse, dance
• ΠΑΙΖΕΙΝ — to play, to sport, to jest, to mock, to make sport of
• ΠΑΙΖΕΙΣ — you play, you are playing, you joke, you are joking, you dance, you are dancing
• ΠΑΙΖΕΤΑΙ — is played, is joked, is amused, is sported
• ΠΑΙΖΟΜΕΝΟΝ — being played, being mocked, being made sport of, being ridiculed
• ΠΑΙΖΟΝΤΑ — playing, making sport, mocking, jesting, dancing
• ΠΑΙΖΟΝΤΕΣ — playing, making sport, jesting, amusing themselves
• ΠΑΙΖΟΝΤΟΣ — of playing, of one playing, of him playing, of it playing
• ΠΑΙΖΟΝΤΩΝ — playing, making sport, of those playing, of those making sport
• ΠΑΙΖΟΥΣΑ — playing, a playing (woman), making sport, jesting, dancing
• ΠΑΙΖΟΥΣΑΙ — playing, a playing, making sport, dancing, a dancing
• ΠΑΙΖΩ — play, sport, jest, make sport of, mock, dance
• ΠΑΙΖΩΝ — playing, joking, jesting, making sport, one who plays, one who jokes
• ΠΑΙΞΑΙ — to play, to sport, to mock, to make fun of, to make sport of
• ΠΑΙΞΑΤΩ — let him play, he should play, let it play, it should play
• ΠΑΙΞΑΤΩΣΑΝ — let them play, they should play
• ΠΑΙΞΗ — he will play, she will play, it will play, he will sport, she will sport, it will sport, he will dance, she will dance, it will dance
• ΠΑΙΞΟΜΑΙ — I will play, I will dance, I will make sport
• ΠΡΟΣΠΑΙΖΩΝ — playing with, jesting with, mocking, making sport of
• ΣΥΝΠΑΙΞΟΝ — play with, play along with

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