2001 Translation

LYKOUS, lykous

Sounds Like: ly-KOOS

Translations: wolves, the wolves

From the root: ΛΥΚΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to wolves, the carnivorous mammals. In a figurative sense, it can be used to describe dangerous, predatory, or deceitful individuals, often in contrast to sheep or lambs, which represent the innocent or vulnerable. It is typically used in the plural to denote multiple wolves.

Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3074 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:10, 1:12

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 5:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Habakkuk — 1:8

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 16:3

From the same root

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

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.

• ΛΥΚ — wolf, a wolf
• ΛΥΚΟΙ — wolves
• ΛΥΚΟΝ — wolf, a wolf
• ΛΥΚΟΣ — wolf, a wolf
• ΛΥΚΟΥ — of a wolf, of the wolf
• ΛΥΚΩ — wolf, a wolf, (to) a wolf, (to) the Lycus, Lycus (river)
• ΛΥΚΩΝ — (of) wolves

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