ΛΗΣΤΩΝ, ληστων
LĒSTŌN, lēstōn
Sounds Like: LAY-stohn
Translations: of robbers, of bandits, of thieves, of brigands
From the root: ΛΗΣΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to those who engage in robbery, brigandage, or plundering. It can describe a highwayman, a bandit, or even an insurrectionist or rebel, depending on the context. It is used to denote individuals who take by force or violence.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3027 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 9 — 8:183
- Book 14 — 9:159, 15:415, 15:424
- Book 16 — 9:276, 9:282, 9:291, 10:347
- Book 20 — 8:161, 8:163, 8:167, 8:185, 9:215, 11:256
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 11:10
- Book Two — 4:3, 13:4, 13:5, 17:27
- Book Four — 4:21, 7:21, 9:25, 9:70
- Book Five — 10:2
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 17:3
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 14:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΗΣΤΗΣ.
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.
- ΛΗΣΑΣ — robber, bandit, brigand, a robber, a bandit
- ΛΗΣΤΑΙ — robbers, bandits, thieves
- ΛΗΣΤΑΙΣ — to a robber, to robbers, to a bandit, to bandits, to a revolutionary, to revolutionaries
- ΛΗΣΤΑΣ — robbers, bandits, brigands
- ΛΗΣΤΗ — robber, a robber, bandit, a bandit, revolutionary, a revolutionary
- ΛΗΣΤΗΝ — robber, a robber, bandit, a bandit, revolutionary, a revolutionary
- ΛΗΣΤΗΡΙΑ — robbery, a robbery, den of robbers, a den of robbers
- ΛΗΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ — den of robbers, a den of robbers, robbers' den, hideout
- ΛΗΣΤΗΣ — robber, a robber, bandit, a bandit, brigand, a brigand
- ΛΗΣΤΟΝ — robber, a robber, bandit, a bandit, brigand, a brigand
- ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΟΥΣ — robber-like, piratical, belonging to robbers
- ΛΗΣΤΡΙΚΩΣ — like a robber, in a predatory manner, by robbery, in a piratical manner
- ΛΗΣΤΩ — of robbers, of bandits, of brigands
- ΛΗΣΤ‾Η‾ — robber, bandit, brigand, revolutionary, a robber, a bandit
- ΤΩΝΛΗΣΤΩΝ — of the robbers, of robbers, of bandits, of the bandits
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