ΔΕΙΛΑΙ, δειλαι
DEILAI, deilai
Sounds Like: DEE-lai
Translations: wretched, miserable, fearful, cowardly
From the root: ΔΕΙΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something as wretched, miserable, fearful, or cowardly. It is used to express a state of distress, unhappiness, or lack of courage. In the provided examples, it is used to lament the state of Nineveh and those who caused harm or rejoiced in its downfall, as well as the cities that enslaved the children of Israel.
Inflection: Feminine, Plural, Nominative or Vocative
Strong’s number: G1169 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 5:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΕΙΛΟΣ.
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.
- ΔΕΙΛΑΙΑ — wretched, a wretched one, miserable, cowardly
- ΔΕΙΛΑΙΑΙ — cowardly, timid, wretched, miserable
- ΔΕΙΛΑΙΣ — (to) cowardly, (to) timid, (to) wretched, (to) miserable
- ΔΕΙΛΑΣ — cowardly, timid, fearful, a cowardly one
- ΔΕΙΛΕΑ — cowardly, timid, wretched, miserable, a coward, a timid one, cowardice, timidity
- ΔΕΙΛΟ — cowardly, timid, fearful, a cowardly person, a timid person
- ΔΕΙΛΟ'Υ — of a coward, of a timid person, of a fearful person
- ΔΕΙΛΟΙ — cowardly, timid, fearful, a coward, the fearful
- ΔΕΙΛΟΙΣ — cowardly, timid, fearful, fainthearted, of the cowardly, to the cowardly
- ΔΕΙΛΟΝ — cowardly, timid, fearful, a coward, a timid person
- ΔΕΙΛΟΣ — cowardly, timid, fearful, a coward, a timid person
- ΔΕΙΛΟΤΑΤΟΝ — most cowardly, very cowardly, a most cowardly thing
- ΔΕΙΛΟΥ — of a coward, of a timid person, of a fearful person
- ΔΕΙΛΟΥΣ — cowardly, timid, fearful, a coward, a timid person
- ΔΙΛΟΙ — cowardly, timid, fearful, a coward, the cowardly
- ΔΙΛΟΝ — cowardly, timid, fearful, a cowardly one, a timid one, a fearful one
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