ΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΑ, βαλανεια
BALANEIA, balaneia
Sounds Like: bah-lah-NEH-yah
Translations: baths, bathhouses
From the root: ΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to bathing establishments, which could be public or private. In ancient times, bathhouses were significant social and hygienic centers where people would gather not only to bathe but also to socialize, exercise, and conduct business. It is typically used in the plural to refer to a complex of bathing facilities.
Inflection: Plural, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G0904 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 19 — 7:335
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΟΝ.
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.
- ΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΟΝ — bath, bathhouse, a bath, a bathhouse
- ΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΩΝ — of baths, of bathhouses
- ΤΟΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΟΝ — the bathhouse, a bathhouse
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