ΚΥΩΝ, κυων
KYŌN, kyōn
Sounds Like: KOO-ohn
Translations: dog, a dog
From the root: ΚΥΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a dog. In ancient Greek culture, dogs were often seen as scavengers or unclean animals, though they could also be loyal companions. It is used to refer to an actual canine animal.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G2965 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Judges — 7:5
- Tobit — 6:1
- Psalms — 58:7, 58:15
- Proverbs — 7:22, 26:11
- Ecclesiastes — 9:4
- 2 Peter — 2:22
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 6:22
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 11:7
- Judges — 7:5
- 1 Samuel — 17:43
- 2 Samuel — 16:9
- 2 Kings — 8:13
- Judith — 11:19
- Tobit — 5:17, 6:2, 11:4
- Psalms — 58:7, 58:15
- Proverbs — 7:22, 26:11
- Ecclesiastes — 9:4
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 2 Peter — 2:22
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΥΩΝ.
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.
- ΚΥΝ — dog, a dog, (of) a dog, (to) a dog
- ΚΥΝΑ — dog, a dog
- ΚΥΝΑΝ — dog, a dog
- ΚΥΝΑΡΙΑ — little dogs, puppies, a little dog, a puppy
- ΚΥΝΑΡΙΟΝ — little dog, a little dog, puppy, a puppy
- ΚΥΝΑΣ — dogs
- ΚΥΝΕΣ — dogs
- ΚΥΝΙ — (to) a dog, (to) the dog
- ΚΥΝΟΣ — of a dog, of dog
- ΚΥΝΩΝ — of dogs, dogs
- ΚΥΣΙΝ — dogs, a dog
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