ὈΛΙΓΟΣΤΟΣ, ὀλιγοστος
OLIGOSTOS, oligostos
Sounds Like: oh-li-GOS-tos
Translations: smallest, least, fewest, a smallest, a least, a fewest
From the root: ὈΛΙΓΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is a superlative adjective meaning 'smallest in number or degree' or 'least'. It is used to describe something that is the absolute minimum or the very smallest among a group. For example, it can refer to the smallest quantity, the least significant person, or the fewest in number.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine. This word is a superlative adjective and can inflect for all genders, numbers, and cases.
Strong’s number: G3642 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 10 — 11:222
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 34:30
- 1 Maccabees — 3:16
- Sirach — 48:15
- Isaiah — 16:14, 41:14, 60:22
- Amos — 7:2, 7:5
- Micah — 5:2
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
- ὈΛΙΓΟΙΣ — to few, for few, with few, by few, to little, for little, with little, by little
- 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
- 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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