2001 Translation

ERASTAS, erastas

Sounds Like: eh-ras-TAS

Translations: lovers, paramours

From the root: ἘΡΑΣΤΗΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a lover or paramour, often with a connotation of illicit or passionate love. It is typically used to describe someone who is romantically or sexually involved with another person, sometimes outside of marriage. In the provided examples, it appears in the accusative plural, indicating that the 'lovers' are the direct object of an action.

Inflection: Masculine, Plural, Accusative

Strong’s number: G2038 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:16

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Lamentations — 1:19
• Ezekiel — 16:36, 16:37, 23:5, 23:22
• Hosea — 2:7

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
• ἘΡΑΣΤΑΙΣ — to lovers, for lovers, with lovers, by lovers
• 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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