ΑΠΟΙΚΕΣΙΑ, αποικεσια
APOIKESIA, apoikesia
Sounds Like: ah-poy-keh-SEE-ah
Translations: colony, a colony, settlement, a settlement
From the root: ΑΠΟΙΚΕΣΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a colony or a settlement, specifically a group of people who leave their native country to form a new settlement in a foreign land, but remain subject to the parent state. It describes the act of colonizing or the resulting community itself.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0589 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΠΟΙΚΕΣΙΑ.
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.
- ἈΠΟΙΚΕΣΙΑΝ — exile, a deportation, a removal, a carrying away
- ἈΠΟΙΚΕΣΙΑΣ — of the exile, of the captivity, of the deportation
- ΑΠΟΙΚΕΣΙΑΣ — of a colony, of a settlement, of a migration, of a founding of a colony
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