ἘΡΥΜΑΤΟΣ, ἐρυματος
ERYMATOS, erymatos
Sounds Like: eh-ROO-mah-tos
Translations: of a fortress, of a stronghold, of a defense, of a bulwark
From the root: ἘΡΥΜΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a fortified place, a stronghold, or a defense. It can be used literally to describe a physical fortress or metaphorically to describe a strong defense or barrier, such as an argument or a belief system that acts as a barrier against opposing ideas.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Neuter
Strong’s number: G2068 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 14 — 5:86
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΡΥΜΑ.
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.
- ἘΡΥΜΑ — fortress, a fortress, stronghold, a stronghold, defense, a defense, protection, a protection
- ἘΡΥΜΑΤΑ — fortresses, strongholds, defenses, bulwarks
- ΤΩΝἘΡΥΜΑΤΩΝ — of the fortifications, of the strongholds, of the bulwarks, of the defenses
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