ΞΙΦΟΣ, ξιφος
XIPHOS, xiphos
Sounds Like: XEE-foss
Translations: sword, a sword
From the root: ΞΙΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a sword, a weapon typically used for cutting or thrusting. It is commonly used in narratives describing battles, combat, or the carrying of arms. It can also be used metaphorically to represent conflict, judgment, or authority.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G3571 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Codex Sinaiticus
- Wisdom — 18:15
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 9:184
- Book 14 — 13:357, 15:463
- Book 16 — 7:211
- Book 19 — 1:55, 1:85, 1:105, 1:109, 1:124, 4:270
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 27:8
- Book Two — 11:8, 18:15, 18:20, 21:60
- Book Three — 5:25, 8:20
- Book Five — 12:27
- Book Six — 2:82, 7:4
- Book Seven — 9:9
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 28:138
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΞΙΦΟΣ.
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.
- ΞΙΦΕΙ — (to) a sword, (to) sword, (with) a sword, (with) sword, (by) a sword, (by) sword
- ΞΙΦΕΣΙ — to swords, with swords, by swords
- ΞΙΦΕΣΙΝ — (to) swords, (with) swords, (by) swords
- ΞΙΦΗ — swords, a sword
- ΞΙΦΙΔΙΟΝ — dagger, a dagger, short sword, a short sword, knife, a knife
- ΞΙΦΟΥΣ — of a sword, of sword
- ΞΙΦΩΝ — of swords, swords
- ΤΩΝΞΙΦΩΝ — of the swords, of swords
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