ΥΦΗΡΕΙ, υφηρει
YPHĒREI, yphērei
Sounds Like: hoo-fai-REH-ee
Translations: he was taking away, he was subtracting, he was stealing, he was removing
From the root: ΥΦΑΙΡΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is an inflected form of the verb 'hyphaireō', meaning 'to take away from under', 'to subtract', or 'to steal'. It describes an action that was ongoing or repeated in the past. It is a compound word formed from 'hypo' (under, from under) and 'haireō' (to take, to seize).
Inflection: Third Person Singular, Imperfect Indicative, Active Voice
Strong’s number: G5226 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 25:7
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΦΑΙΡΕΩ.
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.
- ΥΦΑΙΡΕΙΝ — to take away, to subtract, to remove, to diminish
- ΥΦΑΙΡΕΩ — to take away, to subtract, to remove, to diminish, to cut off
- ΥΦΑΙΡΟΥΜΕΝΟΙ — taking away, removing, stealing, withdrawing, subtracting
- ΥΦΑΙΡΟΥΝΤΕΣ — taking away, subtracting, removing, withdrawing, stealing
- ΥΦΑΙΡΩΝ — taking away, removing, subtracting, withdrawing, stealing, pilfering
- ΥΦΕΙΛΑΤΟ — took away, removed, carried away, snatched away
- ΥΦΕΛΗΤΑΙ — take away, steal, defraud, subtract, remove
- ΥΦΕΛΟΜΕΝΟΣ — having taken away, having stolen, having withdrawn, having removed, having subtracted
- ΥΦΕΛΟΝΤΑ — taking away, removing, subtracting, withdrawing, stealing
- ΥΦΗΡΗΜΕΝΟΙ — taken away, removed, withdrawn, subtracted, diminished
- ΥΦΗΡΗΜΕΝΟΣ — taken away, removed, subtracted, withdrawn, stolen, one who has been taken away
- ΥΦΙΛΑΤΟ — took away, carried away, snatched away, removed
This concordance database is in beta
That means it's an unfinished preview of what we're building and is still being refined and corrected. It was initially generated from Google Gemini 2.5. It will be edited and corrected over time, with additional information added as we go.
It is your responsibility to double-check anything important.
Please report any errors or important missing information.