ὈΡΦΑΝ, ὀρφαν
ORPHAN, orphan
Sounds Like: or-FAN
Translations: orphan, an orphan, fatherless, desolate
From the root: ΟΡΦΑΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun, Adjective
Explanation: The word ὈΡΦΑΝ is the stem of the noun/adjective ὈΡΦΑΝΟΣ, which refers to someone who is an orphan or fatherless. It can also describe someone who is desolate or without a protector. It is used to describe children who have lost their parents, particularly their father, or more broadly, those who are left alone and vulnerable.
Inflection: Stem (used for various inflections), or potentially a truncated form. The full nominative singular is ὈΡΦΑΝΟΣ.
Strong’s number: G3737 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 5 — 9:319
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΡΦΑΝΟΣ.
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.
- ὈΡΦΑΝΑ — orphans, fatherless, a fatherless child, an orphan
- ὈΡΦΑΝΗ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, bereaved
- ὈΡΦΑΝΟΙ — orphans, fatherless, a fatherless one, an orphan
- ὈΡΦΑΝΟΙΣ — (to) orphans, (to) fatherless, (to) desolate
- ὈΡΦΑΝΟΝ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, bereaved, desolate
- ὈΡΦΑΝΟΣ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, desolate, comfortless
- ὈΡΦΑΝΟΥΣ — orphans, fatherless, a fatherless person, desolate, an orphan
- ὈΡΦΑΝΩ — orphan, an orphan, of orphans, to an orphan, to orphans
- ὈΡΦΑΝΩΝ — of orphans, orphans
- ΟΡΦΑΝ — orphan, fatherless, an orphan, a fatherless child
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟ — orphan, an orphan, orphaned, fatherless, desolate, comfortless
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΙ — orphans, fatherless, bereaved, destitute
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΙΣ — to orphans, to fatherless children, to bereft ones, to desolate ones
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΝ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, desolate, comfortless
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΣ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, desolate, comfortless, bereft
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΥ — of an orphan, of an orphaned person, of a fatherless child, of a desolate person, an orphan, a fatherless child, a desolate person
- ΟΡΦΑΝΟΥΣ — orphans, fatherless, destitute
- ΟΡΦΑΝΩ — orphan, an orphan, fatherless, a fatherless child, (to) an orphan, (to) a fatherless child
- ΟΡΦΑΝΩΝ — of orphans
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