ΠΑΡΑΠΟΙΟΥΝΤΕΣ, παραποιουντες
PARAPOIOUNTES, parapoiountes
Sounds Like: pa-ra-poy-OON-tes
Translations: falsifying, corrupting, counterfeiting, adulterating, perverting, distorting
From the root: ΠΑΡΑΠΟΙΕΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'falsifying' or 'corrupting'. It describes someone who is in the act of altering something for the worse, often with an intent to deceive or mislead. It can refer to corrupting texts, counterfeiting money, or distorting truth.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G3842 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 115:6
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΡΑΠΟΙΕΩ.
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.
- ΠΑΡΑΠΕΠΟΙΗΜΕΝΟΝ — falsified, corrupted, distorted, altered, a falsified thing, a corrupted thing
- ΠΑΡΑΠΟΙΕΩ — to falsify, to corrupt, to pervert, to adulterate
- ΠΑΡΑΠΟΙΗΣΑΣ — having falsified, having corrupted, having altered, having counterfeited
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