ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΡΙΟΥ, δεσμωτηριου
DESMŌTĒRIOU, desmōtēriou
Sounds Like: des-moh-tee-REE-oo
Translations: of a prison, of a jail, of a dungeon
From the root: ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΡΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a place of imprisonment, such as a prison, jail, or dungeon. It is used to denote the location where prisoners are held. In this form, it indicates possession or origin, meaning 'of a prison' or 'belonging to a prison'.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Neuter
Strong’s number: G1201 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Acts of the Apostles — 16:26
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 11:41
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 16:26
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΡΙΟΝ.
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.
- ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΡΙΑ — prisons, a prison, jails, a jail
- ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΡΙΟΙΣ — prisons, jails, dungeons
- ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΡΙΩ — prison, a prison, dungeon, a dungeon
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