2001 Translation

ERASTAIS, erastais

Sounds Like: eh-ras-TAIS

Translations: to lovers, for lovers, with lovers, by lovers

From the root: ἘΡΑΣΤΗΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a lover or paramour. It is used to describe someone who has a passionate affection or desire for another, often in a romantic or illicit sense. In a sentence, it would typically function as the indirect object or an object of a preposition, indicating to whom or for whom an action is directed.

Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G2038 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Ezekiel — 16:33

From the same root

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

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.

• ἘΡΑΣΤΑΙ — lovers, friends, paramours, admirers
• ἘΡΑΣΤΑΣ — lovers, paramours
• ἘΡΑΣΤΗ — lover, a lover, paramour, suitor
• ἘΡΑΣΤΗΝ — lover, an admirer, a lover
• ἘΡΑΣΤΟΥ — of a lover, of the lover, of a friend, of the friend
• ἘΡΑΣΤΩΝ — of lovers, of a lover

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