2001 Translation

DĒLON, dēlon

Sounds Like: DAY-lon

Translations: clear, evident, manifest, obvious, a clear thing

From the root: ΔΗΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes something that is clear, evident, or manifest. It is used to indicate that something is easily seen, understood, or proven. For example, one might say that a truth is 'clear' or that a sign is 'evident'.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G1212 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:128, 4:5, 7:11, 10:47

Codex Sinaiticus

• 4 Maccabees — 2:7
• Matthew — 26:73
• 1 Corinthians — 15:27

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 6:1

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 8:42, 16:103, 22:174, 22:185, 29:268, 29:277, 31:287, 35:319, 2:13, 2:22, 10:118, 12:125, 38:268, 38:270
• Book Two — 2:13, 2:22, 10:118, 12:125, 38:268, 38:270

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 8:214, 11:268
• Book 4 — 8:291
• Book 7 — 12:316
• Book 8 — 10:262, 15:408
• Book 10 — 1:9, 11:269
• Book 14 — 7:113
• Book 15 — 3:60, 5:144
• Book 16 — 2:48
• Book 17 — 4:82

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 25:22
• Book Six — 9:14
• Book Seven — 4:18

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 57:2, 83:2, 110:4, 122:2, 136:1

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 49:256

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 15:23
• 4 Maccabees — 2:7

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 26:73
• 1 Corinthians — 15:27
• Galatians — 3:11

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΗΛΟΣ.

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.

• ΔΗΛ — clear, manifest, evident, plain, obvious
• ΔΗΛΑ — evident, clear, manifest, plain, clearly, plainly
• ΔΗΛΗ — clear, manifest, evident, plain, obvious, a clear thing, an evident thing
• ΔΗΛΗΝ — clear, evident, manifest, plain
• ΔΗΛΙΟΥ — of Delos, Delian, a Delian
• ΔΗΛΟΣ — clear, evident, manifest, plain, obvious
• ΔΗΛΟΣἨΝ — made clear, showed, revealed, manifested
• ΔΗΛΟΥΣ — clear, evident, manifest, visible, plain, a clear thing, an evident thing
• ΚΑΤΑΔΗΛΑ — evident, clear, manifest, obvious, plain, a clear thing, an obvious thing
• ΚΑΤΑΔΗΛΟΝ — very clear, evident, obvious, manifest, a very clear thing

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