ὈΛΙΓΟΙΣ, ὀλιγοις
OLIGOIS, oligois
Sounds Like: o-LI-goys
Translations: to few, for few, with few, by few, to little, for little, with little, by little
From the root: ὈΛΙΓΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'few' or 'little'. It describes a small quantity or number of something. In this inflected form, it indicates the dative case, often translated with prepositions like 'to', 'for', 'with', or 'by', and refers to multiple items or people.
Inflection: Dative, Plural, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G3641 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:30
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 5:78
- Book 4 — 8:329
- Book 5 — 6:213, 8:276
- Book 10 — 8:138
- Book 14 — 13:338, 13:340
- Book 17 — 2:27, 10:285, 11:307
- Book 18 — 1:1, 2:49, 4:107
- Book 19 — 1:20, 1:32, 1:125
- Book 20 — 7:143
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 3:2
- Book Two — 6:7, 14:34, 15:16
- Book Three — 10:17
- Book Four — 4:30
- Book Five — 2:10, 13:35
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Mark — 6:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὈΛΙΓΟΣ.
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.
- ὈΛΙΓΑ — few, a few, little, a little
- ὈΛΙΓΑΙ — few, a few
- ὈΛΙΓΑΙΣ — few, a few, little, a little
- ὈΛΙΓΑΣ — few, a few, little
- ὈΛΙΓΑΣΟ — unknown
- ὈΛΙΓΗ — little, a little, few, a few, small, a small
- ὈΛΙΓΟΙ — few, a few, little, small
- ὈΛΙΓΟΝ — little, a little, few, a few, small, a small amount, short, a short time, briefly
- ὈΛΙΓΟΝΩΣ — scarcely, slightly, a little, hardly
- ὈΛΙΓΟΣ — little, few, small
- ὈΛΙΓΟΣΤΟΣ — smallest, least, fewest, a smallest, a least, a fewest
- ὈΛΙΓΟΣΤΩ — (to) fewest, (to) very few, (to) a very small number
- ὈΛΙΓΟΥ — of little, of few, a little, few, almost, nearly, a short time, a little while
- ὈΛΙΓΩΝ — of few, of little
- ὈΛΙΓΩΣ — little, few, scarcely, hardly, slightly, a little
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