ἈΘΛΗΤΗΣ, ἀθλητης
ATHLĒTĒS, athlētēs
Sounds Like: ath-LAY-tays
Translations: athlete, a athlete, combatant, a combatant
From the root: ἈΘΛΗΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to an athlete, one who contends in public games, or a combatant. It can be used literally for someone competing in sports, or metaphorically for someone engaged in a struggle or contest, often in a spiritual sense, like a 'spiritual combatant'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0119 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Ignatius of Antioch
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 12:302
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 6:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΘΛΗΤΗΣ.
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.
- ἈΘΛΗΤΟΥ — of an athlete, of a contestant
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