ἈΣΗΜΩΝ, ἀσημων
ASĒMŌN, asēmōn
Sounds Like: ah-SEE-mohn
Translations: of insignificant, of obscure, of unknown, of ignoble, of undistinguished
From the root: ἈΣΗΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is the genitive plural form of the adjective 'ἄσημος' (asēmos). It describes something or someone as being insignificant, obscure, unknown, or ignoble. In context, it often appears with a negative particle (like 'οὐκ' or 'οὐ') to mean 'not insignificant,' thus implying 'notable,' 'prominent,' or 'distinguished.' It is used to describe a group of people or things that lack importance or recognition.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine or Feminine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G0794 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 8:243
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 18:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΗΜΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΣΗΜΑ — unmarked, insignificant, worthless, unimportant, unintelligible, an unmarked thing, an insignificant thing
- ἈΣΗΜΟΙ — unknown, insignificant, obscure, ignoble, common, a common person
- ἈΣΗΜΟΙΣ — unimportant, insignificant, unknown, obscure, ignoble, common, base, worthless
- ἈΣΗΜΟΝ — unknown, insignificant, obscure, unimportant, ignoble, an unknown thing, an insignificant thing
- ἈΣΗΜΟΣ — insignificant, unknown, obscure, unimportant, ignoble, not notable, not distinguished
- ἈΣΗΜΟΤΑΤΩΝ — of the most insignificant, of the most obscure, of the most unknown, of the most ignoble, of the most base
- ΤΩΝἈΣΗΜΩΝ — (of) the insignificant, (of) the obscure, (of) the unknown, (of) the ignoble, (of) the common, (of) the unmarked
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