ΟΠΛΙΤ, οπλιτ
OPLIT, oplit
Sounds Like: OP-lit
Translations: hoplite, armed man, heavy-armed soldier
From the root: ΟΠΛΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is the stem for 'hoplite,' referring to a heavily armed foot soldier in ancient Greece. It is derived from the word for 'weapon' or 'armor' (hoplon). Hoplites were known for their distinctive shield (hoplon) and their phalanx formation in battle. The term is used to describe a soldier equipped for close combat.
Inflection: Stem (used for various cases and numbers, e.g., Nominative Singular ΟΠΛΙΤΗΣ, Genitive Plural ΟΠΛΙΤΩΝ)
Strong’s number: G3697 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΠΛΟΝ.
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.
- ΟΠΛΑ — arms, weapons, armor, hoofs
- ΟΠΛΑΙΣ — to weapons, with weapons, in weapons, by weapons, to arms, with arms, in arms, by arms
- ΟΠΛΙΤΙΚΑ — hoplite, hoplite armor, hoplite equipment, hoplite forces, a hoplite
- ΟΠΛΙΤΙΚΟΣ — hoplite, of a hoplite, of heavy-armed soldiers, pertaining to heavy-armed soldiers
- ΟΠΛΟ — weapon, armor, arms, a weapon, an armor
- ΟΠΛΟΙΣ — (to) weapons, (with) weapons, (by) weapons, (to) arms, (with) arms, (by) arms, (to) armor, (with) armor, (by) armor
- ΟΠΛΟΝ — weapon, a weapon, arm, an arm, armor, an armor, instrument, an instrument
- ΟΠΛΟΥ — of a weapon, of an implement, of armor, of a tool, of equipment
- ΟΠΛΩ — weapon, a weapon, armor, an armor, arms
- ΟΠΛΩΝ — of arms, of weapons, of armor, of implements, of tools
- ΟΠΛΩΝΤΕ — of weapons and, of armor and, of instruments and
- ΤΩΝΟΠΛΩΝ — of the weapons, of the arms, of the implements
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