ΙΧΘΥΣ, ιχθυς
ICHTHYS, ichthys
Sounds Like: ikh-THOOS
Translations: fish, a fish
From the root: ΙΧΘΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word literally means 'fish'. In early Christianity, it gained significant symbolic meaning as an acronym (an ichthys) for 'Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior' (Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ). It was used as a secret symbol among Christians during times of persecution and is still widely recognized today.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2486 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Tobit — 6:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΙΧΘΥΣ.
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.
- ΗΧΘΥΕΣ — fish, fishes
- ἸΧΘΥΣΙΝ — to fish, for fish, with fish, by fish, among fish
- ΙΧΘΥΑΣ — fish, fishes
- ΙΧΘΥΔΙΑ — small fish, little fish, fish
- ΙΧΘΥΕΣ — fish
- ΙΧΘΥΝ — fish, a fish
- ΙΧΘΥΟΣ — of fish, of a fish
- ΙΧΘΥΩ — of fish, of a fish
- ΙΧΘΥΩΝ — of fish, of the fish
- ΧΘΥΣΙΝ — to fish, for fish, to the fish, for the fish, fish
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