ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ, ελληνων
ELLĒNŌN, ellēnōn
Sounds Like: el-LAY-nohn
Translations: of the Greeks, Greeks
From the root: ΕΛΛΗΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to people of Greek origin, culture, or language. It is used to distinguish them from other ethnic groups, such as Jews or Romans. In a sentence, it would typically be used to indicate possession or origin, as in 'the customs of the Greeks' or 'the land of the Greeks'.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1672 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:137
Clement of Alexandria
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Maccabees — 1:10, 8:18
- 4 Maccabees — 18:20
- Joel — 4:6
- Zechariah — 9:13
- John — 7:35
- Acts of the Apostles — 14:1, 17:4
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 1:4, 8:44, 13:69, 13:72, 22:175, 22:201, 23:216, 1:1, 11:123, 12:131, 36:252, 37:259, 38:269, 40:282
- Book Two — 1:1, 11:123, 12:131, 36:252, 37:259, 38:269, 40:282
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 0:9, 1:38, 3:73, 6:123, 6:124, 6:126, 6:129, 6:138, 19:284, 19:305
- Book 2 — 10:247
- Book 3 — 7:163, 7:172
- Book 4 — 4:73
- Book 7 — 1:10
- Book 8 — 11:284, 12:312
- Book 9 — 14:290
- Book 10 — 11:273
- Book 11 — 8:337
- Book 12 — 8:348
- Book 13 — 6:188, 12:320
- Book 15 — 5:136
- Book 16 — 2:58, 6:160, 6:161
- Book 18 — 1:20, 8:257
- Book 19 — 1:8
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 1:17
- Book Two — 8:39, 13:17, 16:26, 16:32
- Book Three — 9:1
- Book Four — 9:11
- Book Seven — 3:9
Justin Martyr
Mathetes
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Maccabees — 1:10, 8:18
- 2 Maccabees — 4:36
- 4 Maccabees — 18:20
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 8:21, 10:20, 11:2
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 8:21, 10:20, 11:2
- Joel — 3:6
- Zechariah — 9:13
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΛΛΗΝ.
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.
- ἘΛΙΗΝ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
- ΕΛΛ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
- ΕΛΛΗΝ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
- ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ — Greeks, a Greek, a Gentile
- ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ — Greeks, a Greek
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙ — to a Greek, to a Gentile, to a Hellene, to a heathen, to a Greek-speaking person, to a Greek-speaking Jew
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΑΝΩΝ — of Greeks, of Hellenists, of Gentiles
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΣ — Greek, Hellenic
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΟΥ — of a Greek, of the Greek, of a Gentile, of the Gentile
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΙ — in Greek, in the Greek language, Greek-speaking
- ΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ — of a Greek, of a Gentile, of a Hellene
- ΕΛΛΗΣ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
- ΕΛΛΗΣΙ — (to) Greeks, (to) Gentiles, (to) Heathens
- ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ — to Greeks, for Greeks, by Greeks
- ΕΛΛ‾Η‾ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
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