ΚΙΟΝΑΣ, κιονας
KIONAS, kionas
Sounds Like: kee-OH-nas
Translations: pillars, columns
From the root: ΚΙΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a pillar or column, typically a structural support in a building or a monument. It is used to describe the upright supports that hold up a roof or a structure. In the provided examples, it refers to the physical pillars of a house or temple.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2953 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:2
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΙΩΝ.
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.
- ΚΙΟΝ — pillar, a pillar, column, a column
- ΚΙΟΝΑ — pillar, a pillar, column, a column
- ΚΙΟΝΕΣ — columns, pillars, a column, a pillar
- ΚΙΟΝΙΣΚΟΙ — small pillars, little columns, miniature columns
- ΚΙΟΝΙΣΚΩΝ — of small columns, of little pillars
- ΚΙΟΝΟΣ — of a pillar, of a column
- ΚΙΟΝΩΝ — of pillars, of columns
- ΚΙΟΣΙ — to pillars, for pillars, to columns, for columns
- ΚΙΟΣΙΝ — to pillars, to columns
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