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ΗΠΕΙΡΟΣ, ηπειρος

ĒPEIROS, ēpeiros

Sounds Like: hay-PEI-ros

Translations: continent, mainland

From the root: ΗΠΕΙΡΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a continent or the mainland, as opposed to an island. It is used to distinguish a large landmass from smaller, surrounding bodies of land. For example, one might speak of traveling from an island to the mainland.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G2977 (Lookup on BibleHub)


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From the same root

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

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.

  • ἨΠΕΙΡΟΝ — continent, mainland, dry land, a continent, a mainland, a dry land
  • ἨΠΕΙΡΟΥ — of the mainland, of the continent, of the dry land

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