ΘΗΛΕΙ, θηλει
THĒLEI, thēlei
Sounds Like: thay-LEE
Translations: female, feminine, women, females
From the root: ΘΗΛΥΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word describes something as female or feminine. It can be used as an adjective to modify a noun, or it can be used substantively as a noun itself, referring to females or women. In the provided examples, it appears in the plural form, referring to groups of females.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2338 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 6:121
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΗΛΥΣ.
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.
- ΗΛΕΙΑΝ — female, a female
- ΘΗΛΕΙΩΝ — of female, of women, of females
- ΘΗΛΕΣΙ — (to) female, (for) female, (to) feminine, (for) feminine, (to) women, (for) women
- ΘΗΛΙΑ — female, a female, feminine
- ΘΗΛΙΑΙ — female, females, a female
- ΘΗΛΥΚΟΥ — of female, of a female, of feminine, of a feminine
- ΘΗΛΥΝ — female, feminine, a female, a feminine (thing)
- ΘΗΛΥΣ — female, feminine, soft, effeminate
- ΘΗΛΥΤΗΤΑ — femininity, womanliness, female nature
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