ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΣΚΟΙ, μειρακισκοι
MEIRAKISKOI, meirakiskoi
Sounds Like: my-RAH-kis-koy
Translations: young men, youths, lads, boys
From the root: ΜΕΙΡΑΞ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to young men or youths, typically in their adolescence or early adulthood. It is a diminutive form, suggesting 'little young men' or 'mere youths', often implying a certain immaturity or lack of full adult status. It is used to describe a group of young males.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3370 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 7:24
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΙΡΑΞ.
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.
- ΜΕΙΡΑΚΕΣ — youths, young men, boys
- ΜΕΙΡΑΚΙΣΚΟΣ — young man, a young man, youth, a youth, boy, a boy, lad, a lad
- ΜΕΙΡΑΞ — girl, a girl, maiden, a maiden, young woman, a young woman
- ΜΙΡΑΚΕΣ — young man, young woman, youth, a youth
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