ἈΘΛΙΑ, ἀθλια
ATHLIA, athlia
Sounds Like: ATH-lee-ah
Translations: wretched, miserable, pitiable, a wretched one, a miserable one
From the root: ἈΘΛΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something as wretched, miserable, or pitiable. It conveys a sense of extreme misfortune, suffering, or distress. It is used to describe a person or situation that evokes pity or sorrow. In this form, it is a feminine singular adjective.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0006 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 11:273
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΘΛΙΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΘΛΙΟΙΣ — wretched, miserable, distressed, unfortunate, poor, (to) the wretched, (to) the miserable, (to) the distressed, (to) the unfortunate, (to) the poor
- ἈΘΛΙΟΝ — wretched, miserable, pitiable, a wretched thing, a miserable thing, a pitiable thing
- ἈΘΛΙΩΝ — of miserable ones, of wretched ones, of distressed ones, of poor ones
- ἈΘΛΙΩΤΑΤΕ — most wretched, most miserable, most pitiful
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