ΛΙΘΟΣ, λιθος
LITHOS, lithos
Sounds Like: LI-thos
Translations: stone, a stone, rock, a rock
From the root: ΛΙΘΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a stone or a rock. It is a common noun used to describe any piece of solid mineral matter, ranging from small pebbles to large boulders. It can be used literally for physical stones or metaphorically for something hard or unyielding.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3037 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:67
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 6:2
Clement of Alexandria
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Maccabees — 10:73
- Proverbs — 27:3
- Job — 28:3, 41:7, 41:16
- Sirach — 6:21
- Isaiah — 13:12
- Habakkuk — 2:11
- Zechariah — 3:9
- Matthew — 24:2
- Mark — 13:2
- Luke — 17:2, 21:6
- John — 11:38
- Acts of the Apostles — 4:11
- 1 Peter — 2:8
- Epistle of Barnabas — 6:2
- Shepherd of Hermas — 14:6
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 5:39
Justin Martyr
Mathetes
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 2:12, 28:22, 29:2
- Exodus — 15:5
- Joshua — 24:27
- 1 Samuel — 7:12, 17:49, 25:37
- 2 Samuel — 17:13
- 2 Kings — 19:18
- 1 Chronicles — 20:2, 29:8
- 1 Maccabees — 10:73
- Odes — 1:5
- Proverbs — 27:3
- Job — 28:3, 41:6, 41:15
- Sirach — 6:21
- Isaiah — 13:12
- Ezekiel — 10:1
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:34, 2:35, 2:45
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:34, 2:35, 6:17
- Habakkuk — 2:11
- Zechariah — 3:9
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 9 — 9:7
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 3 — 6:6
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, ΛΙΘΟΣ.
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.
- ΚΑΙΛΙΘΟΙΣ — stones, with stones, by stones
- ΛΙΘΑΝ — stone, a stone
- ΛΙΘΙ — stone, of stone, stony
- ΛΙΘΙΝΑ — made of stone, stony, stone
- ΛΙΘΙΝΟΙΣ — (to) stone, (for) stone, (with) stone, (by) stone, (to) stony, (for) stony, (with) stony, (by) stony, (to) made of stone, (for) made of stone, (with) made of stone, (by) made of stone
- ΛΙΘΙΝΟΝ — of stone, stony, made of stone
- ΛΙΘΙΝΟΣ — stone, of stone, made of stone, stony
- ΛΙΘΙΝΟΥ — (of) stone, (of) a stone, stony, made of stone
- ΛΙΘΙΝΩΝ — of stone, stony, made of stone
- ΛΙΘΝ — stone, a stone
- ΛΙΘΟ — stone, a stone, rock, a rock
- ΛΙΘΟΙ — stones
- ΛΙΘΟΙΣ — (to) stones, (with) stones, (by) stones, (in) stones, (on) stones, (for) stones, rocks
- ΛΙΘΟΝ — stone, a stone
- ΛΙΘΟΥ — of stone, of a stone, of rock, of a rock
- ΛΙΘΟΥΣ — stones, rocks
- ΛΙΘΩ — to a stone, for a stone, to stone, for stone
- ΛΙΘΩΝ — of stones, of rocks
- ΛΙΤΟΙ — stones
- ΤΩΝΛΙΘΩΝ — of the stones, of stones
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