ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΑ, ληστρικα
LĒSTRIKA, lēstrika
Sounds Like: lees-TREE-kah
Translations: robber-like, piratical, predatory, like robbers, like pirates
From the root: ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something as being characteristic of a robber or pirate. It refers to actions, behaviors, or objects that are associated with robbery or piracy, such as a piratical ship or a predatory act. In the provided context, it describes ships as being 'piratical' or 'robber-like'.
Inflection: Plural, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G3027 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 10:62
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΟΣ.
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.
- ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΗΝ — robber-like, piratical, brigand-like, a robber-like, a piratical, a brigand-like
- ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΟΙ — robber-like, pertaining to robbers, of robbers, brigand-like, piratical
- ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΟΙΣ — of robbers, of bandits, belonging to robbers, belonging to bandits, like robbers, like bandits
- ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΟΝ — robber-like, predatory, piratical, of robbers, a band of robbers, robbery
- ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΟΣ — robber-like, pertaining to robbers, of robbers, like a robber, a robber-like
- ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΟΥ — of robber-like, of piratical, of brigandish, of a robber-like, of a piratical, of a brigandish
- ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΩΤΕΡΟΝ — more like a robber, more like a bandit, more piratical, more brigand-like, more violently, more like a thief
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