ΘΕΜΕΛΙΟΝ, θεμελιον
THEMELION, themelion
Sounds Like: theh-MEH-lee-on
Translations: foundation, a foundation, base, a base, groundwork, a groundwork
From the root: ΘΕΜΕΛΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the base or groundwork upon which something is built, whether literally, like the foundation of a building, or figuratively, like the fundamental principles of a belief system. It signifies the lowest supporting part of a structure or the underlying basis of an idea.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G2310 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 18:1
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 33:3
Codex Sinaiticus
- Sirach — 1:15
- Jeremiah — 28:26
- Luke — 6:48
- Romans — 15:20
- 1 Corinthians — 3:10, 3:11, 3:12
- Hebrews — 6:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
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, ΘΕΜΕΛΙΟΝ.
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.
- ΘΕΜΕΑʼ — foundations, a foundation
- ΘΕΜΕΛΙΑ — foundations, a foundation
- ΘΕΜΕΛΙΑʼ — foundations, a foundation
- ΘΕΜΕΛΙΟΙ — foundations, a foundation
- ΘΕΜΕΛΙΟΙΣ — to foundations, for foundations, on foundations, foundations
- ΘΕΜΕΛΙΟΥ — of a foundation, of a base, of a groundwork
- ΘΕΜΕΛΙΟΥΣ — foundations, a foundation
- ΘΕΜΕΛΙΩΝ — of a foundation, of foundations, a foundation, foundations
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