ΞΥΣΤΟΣ, ξυστος
XYSTOS, xystos
Sounds Like: KSOO-stos
Translations: polished, scraped, a scraped place, a colonnade, a portico
From the root: ΞΥΣΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word describes something that has been scraped or smoothed, often referring to a polished surface. In a broader sense, it can also refer to a specific architectural feature, a colonnade or portico, which is a covered walkway with columns, typically having a smooth or polished appearance.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3586 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΞΥΣΤΟΣ.
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.
- ΞΥΣΤΟΙΣ — polished, smooth, sharpened, pointed, a javelin, a spear
- ΞΥΣΤΟΝ — polished, smooth, scraped, shaved, a javelin, a spear, a portico, a covered walk
- ΞΥΣΤΟΥ — of scraped, of polished, of smoothed, of a scraped, of a polished, of a smoothed, of a portico, of a colonnade, of a promenade
- ΞΥΣΤΟΥΣ — hewn, polished, smooth
- ΞΥΣΤΩ — hewn, dressed, polished, smooth
- ΞΥΣΤΩΝ — of hewn, of polished, of smoothed
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