2001 Translation

OSTEA, ostea

Sounds Like: OS-teh-ah

Translations: bones

From the root: ὈΣΤΟΥ͂Ν

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the hard, rigid form of connective tissue constituting most of the skeleton of vertebrates. It is the plural form of the word for 'bone' and is used to refer to multiple bones or the skeletal structure in general.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G3747 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:34

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 19:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Lamentations — 3:4, 4:8
• Micah — 3:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 24:39

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὈΣΤΟΥ͂Ν.

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.

• ὈΣΤΑ — bones
• ὈΣΤΕΩΝ — of bones, bones
• ὈΣΤΟΙΣ — to bones, for bones, bones
• ὈΣΤΩΝ — of bones, bones

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