ΠΑΣΤΟΦΟΡΙΩΝ, παστοφοριων
PASTOPHORIŌN, pastophoriōn
Sounds Like: pas-toh-foh-REE-ohn
Translations: of chambers, of cells, of storerooms, of side-chambers
From the root: ΠΑΣΤΟΦΟΡΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to chambers, cells, or storerooms, often found within a larger building, particularly a temple or palace. It is a compound word, combining 'πάστος' (pastos), meaning 'sprinkled' or 'sacred', and 'φορέω' (phoreo), meaning 'to carry' or 'to bear'. In context, it usually denotes rooms used for specific purposes, such as storage or housing priests, rather than general living quarters.
Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Neuter
Strong’s number: G3929 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΣΤΟΦΟΡΙΟΝ.
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.
- ΠΑΣΤΟΦΟΡΙΟΙΣ — (to) chambers, (to) cells, (to) rooms
- ΠΑΣΤΟΦΟΡΙΟΝ — chamber, a chamber, cell, a cell, treasury, a treasury, storeroom, a storeroom
- ΠΑΣΤΟΦΟΡΙΟΥ — of a chamber, of a storehouse, of a treasury, of a cell
- ΤΩΝΠΑΣΤΟΦΟΡΙΩΝ — of the chambers, of the side-chambers, of the pastophoria, of the priests' chambers
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