ΞΥΣΤΩ, ξυστω
XYSTŌ, xystō
Sounds Like: XYS-toh
Translations: hewn, dressed, polished, smooth
From the root: ΞΥΣΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that has been scraped, smoothed, or polished, often referring to stone or timber that has been dressed or hewn. It implies a finished or refined surface, as opposed to a rough or natural one. It is typically used to modify a noun, indicating the quality of the material.
Inflection: Dative, Singular, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G3582 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 16:12
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Maccabees — 13:27
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
- ΞΥΣΤΟΣ — polished, scraped, a scraped place, a colonnade, a portico
- 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
- ΞΥΣΤΩΝ — of hewn, of polished, of smoothed
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