ΠΑΡΑΝΑΛΙΣΚΟΝΤΑΣ, παραναλισκοντας
PARANALISKONTAS, paranaliskontas
Sounds Like: pa-ra-na-LIS-kon-tas
Translations: consuming, wasting, spending, squandering
From the root: ΠΑΡΑΝΑΛΙΣΚΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound participle, meaning 'consuming' or 'wasting away'. It describes an action of using something up, often implying a complete or excessive consumption or squandering. It is formed from the preposition παρά (para), meaning 'beside' or 'beyond', and the verb ἀναλίσκω (analiskō), meaning 'to consume' or 'to spend'.
Inflection: Present Active Participle, Accusative Plural, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3885 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:57
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΡΑΝΑΛΙΣΚΩ.
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.
- ΠΑΡΑΝΑΛΙΣΚΩ — consume, waste, spend, destroy, use up
- ΠΑΡΑΝΑΛΩΘΕΙΣΙ — having been consumed, having been wasted, having been spent
- ΠΑΡΑΝΗΛΙΣΚΕΝ — to consume, to waste, to spend, to squander
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