ΓΛΩΣΣΑ, γλωσσα
GLŌSSA, glōssa
Sounds Like: GLOHS-sah
Translations: tongue, a tongue, language, a language, speech, a speech
From the root: ΓΛΩΣΣΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the physical organ in the mouth, the tongue. It can also refer to a language spoken by a group of people, or more generally, to speech itself. It is used in contexts ranging from literal descriptions of the body to metaphorical uses concerning communication and different languages.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1100 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 35:8
Codex Sinaiticus
- 4 Maccabees — 10:19
- Psalms — 15:9, 21:16, 34:28, 36:30, 44:2, 49:19, 50:16, 51:4, 56:5, 67:24, 70:24, 72:9, 118:172, 125:2, 136:6
- Proverbs — 6:17, 10:20, 10:31, 15:2, 24:22, 25:15, 26:28
- Job — 17:6, 20:16, 29:10, 33:2
- Sirach — 5:13, 6:5, 22:27, 28:14, 28:15, 37:18, 40:21
- Isaiah — 35:6, 41:17, 45:23, 59:3
- Jeremiah — 9:4, 9:7
- Zephaniah — 3:13
- Luke — 1:64
- Acts of the Apostles — 2:26
- Romans — 14:11
- Philippians — 2:11
- James — 3:5, 3:6
- Revelation — 13:7, 14:6
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Magnesians — 10:3
Justin Martyr
- First Apology of Justin Martyr — 48:1, 52:1
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 22:10, 38:3, 69:5, 98:4, 102:1, 102:5, 103:9
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 10:19
- Psalms — 15:9, 21:16, 34:28, 36:30, 44:2, 49:19, 50:16, 51:4, 56:5, 67:24, 70:24, 72:9, 118:172, 125:2, 136:6
- Psalms of Solomon — 4:4, 12:5
- Proverbs — 6:17, 10:20, 10:31, 15:2, 24:22, 25:15, 26:28
- Job — 20:16, 29:10, 33:2
- Sirach — 5:13, 6:5, 22:27, 28:14, 28:15, 37:18, 40:21
- Isaiah — 35:6, 41:17, 45:23, 59:3
- Jeremiah — 9:5, 9:8
- Lamentations — 4:4
- Letter of Jeremiah — 1:7
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:96
- Micah — 6:12
- Zephaniah — 3:13
- Zechariah — 14:12
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΛΩΣΣΑ.
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.
- ΓΛΩΣΑΣΑ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language
- ΓΛΩΣΣΑʼ — tongue, language, speech, a language, a tongue, a speech, (the number) 3000
- ΓΛΩΣΣΑΙ — tongues, languages, dialects
- ΓΛΩΣΣΑΙΣ — tongues, languages, (with fire) flames, (to) tongues, (to) languages, (to) flames
- ΓΛΩΣΣΑΝ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language, speech, a speech, nation, a nation
- ΓΛΩΣΣΑΣ — tongues, languages, nations
- ΓΛΩΣΣΕ — tongues, languages, speeches, to a tongue, to a language, to a speech, to tongues, to languages, to speeches
- ΓΛΩΣΣΕΙ — (to) tongue, (to) language, (to) speech, (to) dialect
- ΓΛΩΣΣΗ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language, speech, a speech
- ΓΛΩΣΣΗΣ — (of) a tongue, (of) a language, (of) a nation
- ΓΛΩΣΣΙΗ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language, speech, a speech, nation, a nation
- ΓΛΩΣΣΩΔΗΣ — talkative, garrulous, verbose, wordy
- ΓΛΩΣΣΩΝ — of tongues, of languages, of speech, of words
- ΓΛΩΤΤΑΝ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language
- ΓΛΩΤΤΗ — (to) tongue, (to) a tongue, (to) language, (to) a language
- ΓΛΩΤΤΗΣ — of tongue, of language, of a tongue, of a language
- ΠΡΟΓΛΩΣΣΟΣ — talkative, garrulous, loquacious, prating
- ΣΣΑΣ — tongues, languages, a tongue, a language
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