ΟΠΛΙΤΑΣ, οπλιτας
OPLITAS, oplitas
Sounds Like: OP-lee-tas
Translations: hoplite, a hoplite, heavy-armed soldier, a heavy-armed soldier
From the root: ΟΠΛΙΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: An hoplite was a heavily armed foot soldier in ancient Greece. They were typically equipped with a large round shield (hoplon), a spear, and a sword. Hoplites fought in a phalanx formation, a tightly packed rectangular unit.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3697 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 5 — 1:35, 8:244
- Book 6 — 11:221, 13:283
- Book 7 — 1:7, 1:13, 6:121, 14:355
- Book 9 — 2:22, 2:25, 7:150, 7:153, 8:174
- Book 10 — 9:173
- Book 14 — 5:83, 8:128, 9:173, 11:281, 13:335
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 9:3, 10:5, 12:10, 12:12, 13:11, 17:12
- Book Two — 5:2, 12:4, 13:11, 18:56, 21:34, 21:44
- Book Three — 10:7
- Book Four — 1:18, 9:30
- Book Five — 2:1, 6:3
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 20:101, 22:107, 22:109, 24:118, 27:132, 28:136, 28:139, 30:145, 32:159, 40:201, 43:212, 46:240, 52:268, 61:316, 62:321, 63:326, 64:331, 72:399, 73:406
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΠΛΙΤΗΣ.
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.
- ΟΠΛΙΤΑΙ — hoplites, heavily armed soldier, foot soldier
- ΟΠΛΙΤΑΙΣ — to hoplites, for hoplites, to soldiers, for soldiers, hoplites, soldiers
- ΟΠΛΙΤΗΝ — hoplite, a hoplite
- ΟΠΛΙΤΗΣ — hoplite, a hoplite, soldier, a soldier
- ΟΠΛΙΤΙΚΗ — hoplitic, of a hoplite, armed, military, a military (force), a hoplite (force)
- ΟΠΛΙΤΙΚΟΝ — hoplite, hoplite force, armed, military, a hoplite force
- ΟΠΛΙΤΙΚΟΥ — of a hoplite, of heavy-armed soldiers, of infantry, of the hoplite force
- ΟΠΛΙΤΩΝ — of hoplites, of soldiers, of armed men
- ΤΕΟΠΛΙΤΑΣ — hoplite, a hoplite, heavy-armed soldier, a heavy-armed soldier
- ΤΩΝΟΠΛΙΤΩΝ — of the hoplites, of the heavy-armed soldiers
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