2001 Translation

LEŌPHOROUS, leōphorous

Sounds Like: leh-oh-FO-roos

Translations: highways, streets, avenues

From the root: ΛΕΩΦΟΡΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a broad road or highway, a public street or avenue. It is a compound word derived from 'λεώς' (leōs), meaning 'people', and 'φόρος' (phoros), meaning 'bearing' or 'carrying', thus literally 'people-carrying' or 'for the people'. It is used to describe major thoroughfares.

Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Feminine

Strong’s number: G3004 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Four — 6:28

From the same root

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

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.

• ΛΕΩΦΟΡΟΝ — highway, a highway, road, a road, street, a street
• ΛΕΩΦΟΡΟΝΗ — road, a road, highway, a highway, main road, a main road
• ΛΕΩΦΟΡΟΣ — highway, a highway, public road, a public road
• ΛΕΩΦΟΡΟΥ — of a highway, of a main road, of a thoroughfare, to a highway, to a main road, to a thoroughfare

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