2001 Translation

DRUI, drui

Sounds Like: DRY-ee

Translations: oak, oak tree, tree

From the root: ΔΡΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to an oak tree or, more generally, any large tree. It is often used in contexts describing natural landscapes or specific locations marked by such trees. In the provided examples, it refers to the tree where Absalom was found hanging and the oak tree of Mamre.

Inflection: Singular, Dative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G1356 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 11:196, 11:197

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 56:1, 56:2, 86:5, 126:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 14:13, 18:1
• 2 Samuel — 18:9, 18:10
• Jeremiah — 2:34

From the same root

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

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.

• ΔΡΥ — tree, an tree, oak, an oak
• ΔΡΥΕΙ — to cut, to hew, to fell, to prune, to lop
• ΔΡΥΕΣ — oaks
• ΔΡΥΝ — oak, a tree, a strong tree
• ΔΡΥΟΣ — of an oak, of a tree, of an oak tree
• ΔΡΥΣ — oak, a tree, a strong tree

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