ΥΠΕΚΣΤΑΝΤΟΣ, υπεκσταντος
YPEKSTANTOS, ypekstantos
Sounds Like: hoo-pek-STAN-tos
Translations: (of) withdrawing, (of) stepping aside, (of) yielding, (of) giving way, (of) departing
From the root: ΥΠΕΞΙΣΤΗΜΙ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound verb participle, formed from the prefixes ὑπό (hypo, meaning 'under' or 'from under') and ἐκ (ek, meaning 'out of'), combined with the verb ἵστημι (histēmi, meaning 'to stand'). Together, it means to withdraw, step aside, or yield from a position or authority. It describes an action of voluntarily moving away or relinquishing something.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine, Aorist, Active
Strong’s number: G5254 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΠΕΞΙΣΤΗΜΙ.
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.
- ΥΠΕΞΙΣΤΑΤΑΙ — withdraws, stands aside, departs, yields, gives way
- ΥΠΕΞΙΣΤΗΜΙ — to withdraw, to depart, to remove oneself, to go out from under
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