ΠΑΡΑΣΠΟΝΔΟΥΝΤΕΣ, παρασπονδουντες
PARASPONDOUNTES, paraspondountes
Sounds Like: pah-rah-spon-DOON-tes
Translations: violating a treaty, breaking a covenant, acting contrary to a treaty, transgressing a treaty
From the root: ΠΑΡΑΣΠΟΝΔΕΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'violating a treaty' or 'breaking a covenant'. It describes someone who is in the act of breaking an agreement or a solemn pledge. It is a compound word formed from 'παρά' (para), meaning 'beside, contrary to', and 'σπονδή' (spondē), meaning 'libation, treaty'.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Masculine or Feminine, Nominative, Plural
Strong’s number: G3865 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:52
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΡΑΣΠΟΝΔΕΩ.
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.
- ΠΑΡΑΣΠΟΝΔΕΩ — to violate a treaty, to break a covenant, to break a truce
- ΠΑΡΑΣΠΟΝΔΗΘΕΙΣ — having violated a treaty, having broken a truce, having acted treacherously, having been betrayed
- ΠΑΡΕΣΠΟΝΔΗΚΑΣΙ — they have violated, they have broken, they have transgressed
- ΠΑΡΕΣΠΟΝΔΗΜΕΝΩΝ — of those who have broken a treaty, of those who have violated a compact, of those who have broken faith
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