ἈΚΡΑΝ, ἀκραν
AKRAN, akran
Sounds Like: AH-kran
Translations: highest, outermost, extreme, top, peak, summit, edge, a peak, an edge
From the root: ἈΚΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is at the very top, tip, or extreme edge. It can refer to the highest point of a mountain, the tip of a finger, or the outermost part of something. It is used to denote the extremity or culmination of something.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0206 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 12:1
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 3:90
- Book 3 — 7:171
- Book 7 — 3:63, 3:66
- Book 8 — 2:44
- Book 12 — 5:252, 7:318, 9:369, 10:405
- Book 13 — 1:14, 1:17, 2:51, 6:215, 7:121
- Book 14 — 3:38
- Book 15 — 11:397, 11:398, 11:401
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 3:3, 7:17, 22:20
- Book Four — 1:71, 1:73, 1:79
- Book Six — 6:39, 6:40, 8:19
- Book Seven — 2:2, 8:41, 8:47
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Kings — 2:35, 10:23, 11:27, 12:24
- 1 Maccabees — 1:33, 6:26, 9:52, 11:20, 11:21, 13:50, 13:52, 14:36
- 4 Maccabees — 7:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΚΡΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΚΡΟΝ — tip, end, top, summit, highest, outermost, a tip, an end
- ἈΚΡΟΣ — highest, outermost, extreme, top, a top, a summit, a peak, a point
- ἈΚΡΟΥ — of the end, of the top, of the extremity, of the highest point, of the tip, of the summit, an end, a top, an extremity, a highest point, a tip, a summit
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