ΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΟΝ, βαλανειον
BALANEION, balaneion
Sounds Like: bah-LAH-ney-on
Translations: bath, bathhouse, a bath, a bathhouse
From the root: ΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a bath or a bathhouse, a place where people would go to wash themselves. It was a common public or private facility in ancient times, often including rooms for hot and cold baths, and sometimes for exercise or socializing. It is a singular noun.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G0904 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 18 — 6:228
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 13:1
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.
- ΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΑ — baths, bathhouses
- ΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΩΝ — of baths, of bathhouses
- ΤΟΒΑΛΑΝΕΙΟΝ — the bathhouse, a bathhouse
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