ΓΑΜΒΡΟΝ, γαμβρον
GAMBRON, gambron
Sounds Like: GAM-bron
Translations: son-in-law, a son-in-law, brother-in-law, a brother-in-law
From the root: ΓΑΜΒΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a male relative by marriage, specifically a son-in-law or a brother-in-law. It is used to describe the relationship of a man to his spouse's family or his sibling's spouse. In the provided examples, it refers to Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, who is described as his 'son-in-law' in the Septuagint, which is a common usage for this term in ancient Greek to denote a male relative by marriage, often a father-in-law or brother-in-law, rather than strictly a son-in-law as in modern English.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1067 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 26:14
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΑΜΒΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΑΜΒΡΩΝ — son-in-law, a son-in-law
- ΓΑΜΒΡΟΙ — sons-in-law, relatives by marriage, brothers-in-law
- ΓΑΜΒΡΟΣ — son-in-law, a son-in-law, bridegroom, a bridegroom, relative by marriage, a relative by marriage
- ΓΑΜΒΡΟΥ — of a son-in-law, of a brother-in-law, of a father-in-law, of a kinsman by marriage
- ΓΑΜΒΡΟΥΣ — sons-in-law
- ΓΑΜΒΡΩ — (to) son-in-law, (to) brother-in-law, (to) father-in-law
- ΓΑΜΒΡΩΝ — of sons-in-law, of bridegrooms, of kinsmen by marriage
- ΤΟΥΓΑΜΒΡΟΥ — (of) the son-in-law, (of) the bridegroom
- ΤΩΓΑΜΒΡΩ — (to) son-in-law, (to) a son-in-law, (to) relative by marriage
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