ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ, ελλησιν
ELLĒSIN, ellēsin
Sounds Like: EL-lay-sin
Translations: to Greeks, for Greeks, by Greeks
From the root: ΕΛΛΗΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to Greeks or Hellenes. It is used in the dative case, indicating the indirect object of a verb or the recipient of an action, often translated with 'to', 'for', or 'by'. It can refer to people of Greek descent, or more broadly, to those who adopted Greek language and culture, regardless of their ethnic origin.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1672 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 2:7, 2:12, 2:14, 4:21, 6:28, 12:63, 35:319, 11:122, 16:154, 17:161, 17:168, 32:221, 32:223, 34:239, 37:259, 38:275
- Book Two — 11:122, 16:154, 17:161, 17:168, 32:221, 32:223, 34:239, 37:259, 38:275
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 0:5, 6:134
- Book 4 — 2:12
- Book 10 — 11:248
- Book 11 — 7:299
- Book 12 — 3:119, 3:125
- Book 15 — 5:136, 10:371
- Book 16 — 6:176
- Book 19 — 6:306
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 11:2
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
- ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ — of the Greeks, Greeks
- ΕΛΛΗΣ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
- ΕΛΛΗΣΙ — (to) Greeks, (to) Gentiles, (to) Heathens
- ΕΛΛ‾Η‾ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
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