2001 Translation

EIDOS, eidos

Sounds Like: EYE-doss

Translations: form, a form, appearance, a sight, kind, a kind, shape, a shape

From the root: ΕἸΔΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the outward appearance or visible form of something. It can also denote a specific kind or species. It is used to describe what something looks like or its general nature.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G1491 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 14:18, 14:20

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 16:3

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 10:247
• Book 3 — 8:197, 10:254
• Book 6 — 13:296
• Book 7 — 4:80, 7:130, 14:344
• Book 8 — 2:44, 2:49
• Book 9 — 7:148
• Book 10 — 3:37
• Book 11 — 6:232
• Book 12 — 7:323

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 13:5
• Book Three — 7:34

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 50:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 13:3, 13:4, 32:2, 36:6, 58:7, 126:3

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 15:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 32:30, 32:31
• Exodus — 24:10, 24:17, 26:30, 28:29
• Leviticus — 13:43
• Numbers — 8:4, 9:15, 9:16, 11:7
• Judges — 13:6
• Proverbs — 7:10
• Song of Solomon — 5:15
• Job — 41:9
• Wisdom — 15:4, 15:5
• Sirach — 43:1
• Isaiah — 52:14, 53:2, 53:3
• Lamentations — 4:8
• Ezekiel — 1:16, 1:26
• Enoch — 14:18, 14:20

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 9:29
• John — 5:37

From the same root

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

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.

• ΕἸΔΕΑ — forms, appearances, kinds, species, ideas
• ΕἸΔΕΑΙ — forms, kinds, types, species, ideas
• ΕἸΔΕΑΙΣ — (to) forms, (to) appearances, (to) kinds, (to) species
• ΕἸΔΕΙ — (to) form, (to) appearance, (to) shape, (to) kind, a form, an appearance
• ΕἸΔΟΥΣ — of form, of kind, of appearance, of sort, of species, of nature, of outward shape

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