ΛΑΥΡΑΙ, λαυραι
LAURAI, laurai
Sounds Like: LAHV-rai
Translations: passages, alleys, monasteries
From the root: ΛΑΥΡΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to narrow passages, alleys, or streets. In a later context, it also came to refer to a type of monastery where monks lived in individual cells or caves but gathered for communal worship.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3004 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 9:340
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΑΥΡΑ.
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.
- ΛΑΥΡΑ — passage, lane, alley, a passage, an alley
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