ἘΧΙΔΝΑΙ, ἐχιδναι
ECHIDNAI, echidnai
Sounds Like: EKH-id-nai
Translations: vipers, adders
From the root: ἘΧΙΔΝΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to vipers or adders, which are types of venomous snakes. It is used to describe these reptiles literally, but can also be used metaphorically to refer to malicious or treacherous people, similar to how 'snake' is used in English. This specific form is the plural.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative or Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2191 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
- First Apology of Justin Martyr — 60:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΧΙΔΝΑ.
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.
- ἘΧΙΔΝΑ — viper, a viper, adder, an adder
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