ΠΑΡΑΚΛΙΝΑΣ, παρακλινας
PARAKLINAS, paraklinas
Sounds Like: pa-ra-KLEE-nas
Translations: having inclined, having turned aside, having bent, having swerved
From the root: ΠΑΡΑΚΛΙΝΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle derived from the verb παρακλίνω. The verb means to incline, turn aside, bend, or swerve. As a participle, it describes an action completed prior to the main verb, functioning adjectivally or adverbially. It is a compound word formed from παρά (para), meaning 'beside' or 'alongside', and κλίνω (klinō), meaning 'to lean' or 'to incline'.
Inflection: Aorist Active Participle, Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G3855 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 32:18
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΡΑΚΛΙΝΩ.
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.
- ΠΑΡΑΚΛΙΝΑΝΤΕΣ — having bowed, having turned aside, having inclined, having deviated
- ΠΑΡΑΚΛΙΝΟΝΤΕΣ — turning aside, deviating, inclining, swerving, bending aside
- ΠΑΡΑΚΛΙΝΩ — to turn aside, to turn away, to decline, to deviate, to bend, to incline
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