ἘΡΙΦΟΥΣ, ἐριφους
ERIPHOUS, eriphous
Sounds Like: eh-RI-foos
Translations: goats, kids, young goats
From the root: ΕΡΙΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to young goats, often called kids. It is used to describe the offspring of a goat, typically before they reach maturity. In the provided examples, it is used in the context of eating or tending to these animals.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2056 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:146
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 18:269
- Book 3 — 10:241, 10:253
- Book 8 — 15:396
- Book 9 — 13:268
- Book 10 — 4:70
- Book 11 — 4:102, 5:137
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΡΙΦΟΣ.
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.
- ἘΡΙΦΗ — goat, a goat, kid, a kid
- ἘΡΙΦΟΙΣ — (to) kids, (for) kids, (with) kids, a kid, kid
- ἘΡΙΦΟΥ — of a kid, of a young goat, a kid, a young goat
- ἘΡΙΦΩΝ — of goats, of kids
- ΕΡΙΦΗ — a kid, a young goat, a goat
- ΕΡΙΦΙΑ — goats, kids, young goats
- ΕΡΙΦΙΟΝ — kid, a kid, young goat, a young goat
- ΕΡΙΦΟΙΣ — to goats, to kids, to young goats
- ΕΡΙΦΟΝ — kid, a kid, young goat, a young goat
- ΕΡΙΦΟΣ — kid, a kid, goat, a goat
- ΕΡΙΦΟΥΣ — of a kid, of a goat, kids, goats
- ΕΡΙΦΩ — (to) a kid, (to) a young goat
- ΕΡΙΦΩΝ — of goats, of kids, of young goats
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