ΗΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΑΙ, ηλληνισται
ĒLLĒNISTAI, ēllēnistai
Sounds Like: hel-lay-nis-TAI
Translations: Hellenists, Greek-speaking Jews
From the root: ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to Hellenists, specifically Greek-speaking Jews who adopted Greek culture and language. In the New Testament, it often distinguishes them from Hebrew-speaking Jews, particularly in the early Christian community, where they sometimes faced discrimination.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1675 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 6:129
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΗΣ.
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.
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΑΣ — Hellenists, the Hellenists
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΗΣ — Hellenist, a Hellenist, Greek-speaking Jew, a Greek-speaking Jew
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΩΝ — of Hellenists, of Greek-speaking Jews
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