ἈΛΣΩΝ, ἀλσων
ALSŌN, alsōn
Sounds Like: AL-sone
Translations: of groves, of sacred groves, of woods
From the root: ΑΛΣΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is the genitive plural form of the noun "ἄλσος" (alsos), which refers to a grove, especially a sacred grove or a wood. It is used to indicate possession or origin, similar to saying "belonging to groves" or "from groves." For example, it might be used in phrases like "the trees of the groves" or "the gods of the sacred groves."
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Neuter
Strong’s number: G0000 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Unknown: Yes
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 13:336
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Kings — 18:19
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΛΣΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΛΣΕΙ — to a grove, in a grove, a grove
- ἈΛΣΕΣΙ — (to) groves, (to) sacred groves
- ἈΛΣΕΣΙΝ — (to) groves, (to) sacred groves, (to) trees
- ἈΛΣΕΩΝ — (of) groves, (of) sacred groves
- ἈΛΣΗ — groves, sacred groves
- ἈΛΣΟΣ — grove, a grove, sacred grove, a sacred grove
- ἈΛΣΟΥΣ — of a grove, of a sacred grove, of a wood
- ΑΛΣΕΣΙΝ — to a grove, to a sacred grove, to a wood, to a forest
- ΑΛΣΗ — grove, a grove, sacred grove, a sacred grove
- ΑΛΣΟΣ — grove, a grove, sacred grove
- ΑΛΣΟΥΣ — grove, a grove, sacred grove, a sacred grove
- ΑΛΣΩΔΟΥΣ — (of) a grove, (of) a sacred grove, (of) a wood
- ΑΛΣΩΝ — grove, a grove, sacred grove
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