ΝΗΣΟΙ, νησοι
NĒSOI, nēsoi
Sounds Like: NEE-soy
Translations: islands, coastlands
From the root: ΝΗΣΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to islands or, more broadly, to coastlands or regions beyond the sea. It is typically used to denote land masses surrounded by water, or sometimes, metaphorically, distant lands.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative
Strong’s number: G3520 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 6:128
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 10:5, 10:32
- Psalms — 71:10, 96:1
- Isaiah — 41:1, 42:10, 45:16, 49:1, 51:5, 60:9
- Ezekiel — 26:15, 26:18, 39:6
- Zephaniah — 2:11
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΗΣΟΣ.
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.
- ΝΗΣΙΝ — island, an island
- ΝΗΣΙΟΝ — small island, an island, a small island
- ΝΗΣΟΙΣ — to islands, for islands, in islands, on islands, islands
- ΝΗΣΟΝ — island, an island
- ΝΗΣΟΣ — island, an island
- ΝΗΣΟΥ — of an island, of an isle, an island, an isle
- ΝΗΣΟΥΣ — islands, an island, island
- ΝΗΣΣΟΙ — islands, an island
- ΝΗΣΩ — island, an island
- ΝΗΣΩΝ — of islands, islands
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