2001 Translation

KALLOS, kallos

Sounds Like: KAL-los

Translations: beauty, a beauty, splendor, glory

From the root: ΚΑΛΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to beauty, splendor, or glory. It is often used to describe physical attractiveness or the magnificent appearance of something. It can also refer to the inherent excellence or glory of a person or thing. In the provided examples, it is used to describe the beauty of gold, the splendor of God's glory, and the beauty of Jerusalem.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G2570 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 98:2

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:20, 10:49

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 16:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 1:11
• Judith — 16:9
• 1 Maccabees — 1:26
• 4 Maccabees — 8:5
• Proverbs — 11:22, 31:30
• Sirach — 9:8, 26:16, 26:17, 36:22, 40:22, 43:9, 43:18
• Isaiah — 53:2
• Zechariah — 11:7

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:195, 32:230
• Book Two — 32:230

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 8:163
• Book 2 — 9:231
• Book 4 — 5:98, 6:129, 8:249
• Book 5 — 1:68, 1:78, 8:279
• Book 6 — 7:137, 7:138, 8:160, 8:161, 13:308
• Book 7 — 8:162, 8:189
• Book 8 — 3:88, 4:125, 5:136
• Book 10 — 11:264
• Book 11 — 3:56, 6:234
• Book 12 — 2:80, 2:101
• Book 14 — 1:2, 7:107
• Book 15 — 2:25
• Book 16 — 2:18, 8:230
• Book 19 — 7:335
• Book 20 — 7:143

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 22:11
• Book Three — 10:55
• Book Five — 4:21, 4:26, 5:56, 9:6, 9:69
• Book Seven — 5:17, 5:43

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 50:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 13:4, 91:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 49:21
• Deuteronomy — 33:17
• Esther — 1:11
• Judith — 16:9
• 1 Maccabees — 1:26
• 4 Maccabees — 8:5
• Psalms of Solomon — 2:4, 2:20, 2:23, 16:8
• Proverbs — 11:22, 29:48
• Sirach — 9:8, 25:21, 26:16, 26:17, 36:27, 40:22, 43:9, 43:18
• Isaiah — 37:24, 53:2
• Letter of Jeremiah — 1:23
• Ezekiel — 16:25, 27:3, 27:4, 27:11, 28:7
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 13:56
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:56
• Zechariah — 11:7

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 1 — 1:2

From the same root

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

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.

• ΚΑΛʼΛΟΣ — beauty, excellence, a beauty
• ΚΑΛΛΕΙ — beauty, splendor, comeliness
• ΚΑΛΛΗ — beauties, excellencies, splendors
• ΚΑΛΛΟΥΣ — of beauty, of excellence, of comeliness, of splendor
• ΤΟΚΑΛΛΟΣ — the beauty, beauty, the fairness, fairness, the excellence, excellence

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