ΠΡΟΑΣΤΕΙΟΝ, προαστειον
PROASTEION, proasteion
Sounds Like: proh-as-TEI-on
Translations: suburb, a suburb, outlying district, precinct
From the root: ΠΡΟΑΣΤΕΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to an area outside or in front of a city, often a residential district or a surrounding territory. It is a compound word formed from 'πρό' (pro), meaning 'before' or 'in front of', and 'ἄστυ' (astu), meaning 'city'. It describes the area immediately adjacent to a city, akin to a suburb or a city's environs.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G4260 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 14:6
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΑΣΤΕΙΟΝ.
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.
- ΠΡΟΑΣΤΕΙΑ — suburbs, outskirts, pasture lands
- ΠΡΟΑΣΤΕΙΑΜΕΝ — suburbs indeed, the suburbs on the one hand, a suburb indeed, the outskirts indeed
- ΠΡΟΑΣΤΕΙΑΤΗΣ — of a suburb, of the suburbs, of pasture land, of the pasture lands
- ΠΡΟΑΣΤΕΙΟΙΣ — suburb, suburbs, a suburb, the suburbs
- ΠΡΟΑΣΤΕΙΟΥ — of the suburb, of a suburb, of the outskirts, of an outlying district
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