ΜΑΜΜΗ, μαμμη
MAMMĒ, mammē
Sounds Like: MAM-may
Translations: grandmother, a grandmother, old woman
From the root: ΜΑΜΜΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a grandmother or an old woman. It is often used as a term of endearment or respect for an elderly female relative, particularly one's maternal grandmother. It can also be used more generally to refer to an elderly woman.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3125 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 10 — 11:237
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 16:9
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 2 Timothy — 1:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΑΜΜΗ.
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.
- ΜΜΗ — grandmother, a grandmother, mother, a mother
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