ΨΙΛΩ, ψιλω
PSILŌ, psilō
Sounds Like: psee-LOH
Translations: to strip bare, to make smooth, to make bald, to shave
From the root: ΨΙΛΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This verb means to make something bare, smooth, or bald, often by stripping away hair or covering. It can be used in contexts of shaving or making a surface smooth. In the provided example, it refers to shaving or making the hair bald.
Inflection: First Person Singular, Present Tense, Active Voice, Indicative Mood
Strong’s number: G5592 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:87
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΨΙΛΟΩ.
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.
- ἘΨΙΛΩΜΕΝΗΝ — stripped, made bare, denuded, emptied, a stripped (thing), a denuded (thing)
- ἘΨΙΛΩΜΕΝΩΝ — (of) those having been stripped, (of) those having been made bare, (of) those having been cleared, (of) those having been denuded
- ΨΙΛΟΜΕΝΩΝ — being stripped, being bared, being made bare, being divested, being made smooth, being made plain
- ΨΙΛΟΩ — to strip bare, to make bare, to make smooth, to make bald, to make plain
- ΨΙΛΩΘΕΙΣ — having been stripped, having been bared, having been made bare, having been made smooth, having been made bald
- ΨΙΛΩΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will make bare, they will shave bare, they will strip bare
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