2001 Translation

KOROUS, korous

Sounds Like: ko-ROOS

Translations: cors, homers

From the root: ΚΟΡΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a 'cor' or 'homer', which was a Hebrew measure of capacity for both dry and liquid goods. It was equivalent to about 10-12 bushels or 90-100 gallons. In the provided context, it is used in the plural to indicate multiple units of this measure.

Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine

Strong’s number: G2884 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Luke — 16:7

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 15:321
• Book 8 — 2:40, 2:57
• Book 9 — 11:238
• Book 15 — 9:314

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Numbers — 11:32
• 1 Kings — 5:11

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 16:7

From the same root

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

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.

• ΚΟΡΟΙ — cors, homers, a cor, a homer
• ΚΟΡΟΝ — satiety, a satiety, excess, an excess, fullness, a fullness
• ΚΟΡΟΣ — cor, a cor, homer, a homer
• ΚΟΡΟΥ — of a cor, of a homer, cor, homer
• ΚΟΡΩ — cor, homer, a cor, a homer

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