ΟΜΗΡΕΥΜΑ, ομηρευμα
OMĒREUMA, omēreuma
Sounds Like: oh-MEE-rehv-mah
Translations: hostage, a hostage, pledge, a pledge, security, a security
From the root: ΟΜΗΡΕΥΩ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a hostage, someone held as security for the fulfillment of an agreement or as a prisoner. It can also refer to the pledge or security itself that is given. It is a noun derived from the verb 'ομηρεύω' (to be a hostage or pledge).
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 19:289
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΜΗΡΕΥΩ.
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.
- ΟΜΗΡΕΥΕΙ — to be a hostage, to be held as a hostage, to give hostages, to pledge
- ΟΜΗΡΕΥΟΝΤΑ — being held as a hostage, being a hostage, being given as a hostage, being taken as a hostage
- ΟΜΗΡΕΥΟΝΤΑΣ — being held as hostage, serving as hostage, acting as hostage
- ΟΜΗΡΕΥΟΝΤΟΣ — (of) being a hostage, (of) serving as a hostage
- ΟΜΗΡΕΥΟΝΤΩΝ — being held as hostages, of those being held as hostages, of those who are hostages
- ΟΜΗΡΕΥΣΟΝΤΑΣ — who will be hostages, about to be hostages, to give as hostages, to hold as hostages
- ΟΜΗΡΕΥΩ — to be a hostage, to give hostages, to give security, to be surety
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