2001 Translation

KALLOUS, kallous

Sounds Like: KAL-loos

Translations: of beauty, of excellence, of comeliness, of splendor

From the root: ΚΑΛΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to beauty, excellence, or comeliness. It is used to describe something that is aesthetically pleasing or morally good. In the provided examples, it is used in the genitive case, indicating possession or relation, such as 'of beauty' or 'of splendor'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Neuter

Strong’s number: G2572 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

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

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 5:1b
• 4 Maccabees — 2:1
• Psalms — 44:12
• Proverbs — 6:25
• Wisdom — 5:16, 8:2
• Isaiah — 2:16, 62:3

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 19:288
• Book 2 — 9:224
• Book 4 — 6:131
• Book 5 — 2:136
• Book 7 — 7:130, 10:238
• Book 8 — 3:63, 6:168
• Book 11 — 3:51
• Book 13 — 6:211
• Book 15 — 3:60

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 18:48
• Book Six — 1:8

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 38:4, 63:4, 63:5

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Samuel — 16:12, 17:42
• Esther — 5:1
• 4 Maccabees — 2:1
• Psalms — 44:12
• Psalms of Solomon — 17:14
• Proverbs — 6:25
• Wisdom — 5:16, 8:2, 13:3
• Isaiah — 2:16, 62:3
• Ezekiel — 28:12, 28:17
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 13:32
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:32

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
• ΚΑΛΛΟΣ — beauty, a beauty, splendor, glory
• ΤΟΚΑΛΛΟΣ — the beauty, beauty, the fairness, fairness, the excellence, excellence

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