2001 Translation

ETHOS, ethos

Sounds Like: EH-thos

Translations: custom, habit, practice, a custom, a habit, a practice

From the root: ἘΘΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a custom, habit, or practice, something that is regularly done or observed. It describes a customary way of acting or a traditional practice within a community or by an individual. It is often used to refer to established traditions or religious observances.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G1485 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 106:14

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:175, 1:184, 1:298, 1:305, 1:311

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:1, 10:5, 10:6

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 40:282
• Book Two — 40:282

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 12:214
• Book 2 — 14:313
• Book 3 — 6:129
• Book 6 — 11:226, 11:235, 13:285
• Book 7 — 7:130
• Book 8 — 7:186, 13:340
• Book 10 — 11:255
• Book 12 — 2:87, 2:95, 5:259
• Book 13 — 7:102
• Book 14 — 2:25, 10:245, 10:258, 14:386, 15:403
• Book 16 — 6:171
• Book 18 — 2:45, 9:344
• Book 19 — 1:85
• Book 20 — 1:6, 2:28, 5:106, 6:118

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 17:13
• Book Two — 1:1, 10:12, 15:5, 15:16, 17:6
• Book Three — 6:6, 10:21, 10:47
• Book Four — 1:13, 3:34
• Book Five — 5:53, 7:20, 9:3
• Book Six — 5:30, 7:9

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 87:3

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 9:2, 13:1, 18:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 10:89
• 2 Maccabees — 13:4
• Wisdom — 14:16
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 14:15

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 1:9, 2:42, 22:39
• John — 19:40
• Acts — 25:16
• Hebrews — 10:25

From the same root

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

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.

• ἘΘΟΥΣ — of custom, of habit, of usage, of tradition

This concordance database is in beta

That means it's an unfinished preview of what we're building and is still being refined and corrected. It was initially generated from Google Gemini 2.5. It will be edited and corrected over time, with additional information added as we go.

It is your responsibility to double-check anything important.

Please report any errors or important missing information.