2001 Translation

ELLĒSI, ellēsi

Sounds Like: EL-lay-see

Translations: (to) Greeks, (to) Gentiles, (to) Heathens

From the root: ΕΛΛΗΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to Greeks, or more broadly, to non-Jews, often translated as Gentiles or Heathens in a religious context. It is used to indicate the recipients of an action or something belonging to them, functioning as the dative plural form of the noun 'Greek'.

Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G1672 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:3, 2:41, 4:16, 4:19

Codex Sinaiticus

• Acts of the Apostles — 20:21

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 2:6, 2:14, 4:20, 11:58, 18:116, 22:161, 16:155, 40:281
• Book Two — 16:155, 40:281

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 3:107, 6:126
• Book 4 — 7:161
• Book 8 — 3:95
• Book 18 — 5:141, 9:374
• Book 19 — 7:329

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:16
• Book Seven — 3:8

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 7:1, 24:1, 46:1, 54:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 67:2, 69:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 6:2

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
• ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ — of the Greeks, Greeks
• ΕΛΛΗΣ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
• ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ — to Greeks, for Greeks, by Greeks
• ΕΛΛ‾Η‾ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile

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