2001 Translation

EISTOUS, eistous

Sounds Like: ice-TOOS

Translations: into, to, for, toward, among

From the root: ΕἸΣ

Part of Speech: Prepositional Phrase

Explanation: This is a compound phrase formed by the preposition ΕἸΣ (eis) meaning 'into' or 'to', and the definite article ΤΟΥΣ (tous), which is the masculine plural accusative form of 'the'. Together, ΕἸΣΤΟΥΣ indicates motion or direction 'into the' or 'to the' (plural masculine nouns), or it can denote purpose or result. It is used to show movement towards a place, person, or state, or to indicate a goal or outcome.

Inflection: Preposition with Accusative Plural Masculine Definite Article

Strong’s numbers: G1519 (Lookup on BibleHub), G3588 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 6:13
• Book Six — 7:4

From the same root

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

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.

• ΕἸΣ — into, to, for, unto, among, in, toward
• ΕἸΣΑ — into, to, toward, in, unto
• ΕἸΣΟΝ — into, in, to, for, among, toward, with, on, at, a

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