ΧΩΣΘΗΝΑΙ, χωσθηναι
CHŌSTHĒNAI, chōsthēnai
Sounds Like: khos-THAY-nai
Translations: to be heaped up, to be filled in, to be mounded, to be piled up
From the root: ΧΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist passive infinitive form of the verb 'χοόω' (choo), meaning 'to heap up' or 'to pile up'. In its passive form, it means 'to be heaped up' or 'to be filled in', often referring to earth, dirt, or debris. It describes the action of something being accumulated or covered by a mound of material, such as a trench being filled.
Inflection: Aorist, Passive, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G5560 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 6:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΟΩ.
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.
- ἘΧΩΣΑΝ — they heaped up, they piled up, they filled up, they threw up, they cast up
- ἘΧΩΣΕ — heaped up, piled up, filled up, poured out, cast
- ἘΧΩΣΘΗ — was heaped up, was piled up, was filled up, was mounded
- ΧΩΖΕΣΘΩ — let it be heaped up, let it be filled, let it be piled up
- ΧΩΣΑΙ — to heap up, to pile up, to fill up, to bury, to entomb
- ΧΩΣΑΣ — having heaped up, having filled up, having piled up, having thrown up
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