ἘΜΦΥΛΙΟΥΣ, ἐμφυλιους
EMPHYLIOUS, emphylious
Sounds Like: em-FY-lee-oos
Translations: civil, domestic, internal
From the root: ΕΜΦΥΛΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is 'inborn' or 'native', but more commonly refers to something 'civil' or 'domestic', especially in the context of conflict. It is often used to describe wars or strife that occur within a single nation or community, rather than between different nations. For example, it would be used to describe a 'civil war'.
Inflection: Masculine, Accusative, Plural
Strong’s number: G1722 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΜΦΥΛΙΟΣ.
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.
- ἘΜΦΥΛΙΟΙΣ — civil, domestic, internal, native, innate, inborn
- ἘΜΦΥΛΙΟΥ — of civil, civil, domestic, internal, native
- ἘΜΦΥΛΙΩ — civil, internal, domestic, native, innate
- ΕΜΦΥΛΙΑ — civil, internal, domestic, innate, inborn
- ΕΜΦΥΛΙΟΝ — civil, domestic, internal
- ΕΜΦΥΛΙΟΣ — civil, internal, domestic, innate, inborn
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