2001 Translation

PTOLEMAIŌ, ptolemaiō

Sounds Like: PTO-le-MAI-oh

Translations: (to) Ptolemy

From the root: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΣ

Part of Speech: Proper Noun

Explanation: This is a proper noun referring to Ptolemy, a common name for several kings of Egypt, particularly after the time of Alexander the Great. It is used to indicate the recipient of an action or the person to whom something is directed.

Inflection: Singular, Dative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G4424 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:41

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:14

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 11:17, 15:16
• 4 Maccabees — 4:22

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:183

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 12 — 1:6, 2:51, 3:138, 6:196
• Book 13 — 3:64, 3:69, 7:80, 7:105, 7:111, 7:118, 12:331, 12:337
• Book 14 — 15:432
• Book 17 — 10:284
• Book 20 — 10:236

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 2:2
• Book Two — 4:10

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 71:1, 71:2, 84:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 26:128

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 11:17, 15:16
• 2 Maccabees — 4:45
• 4 Maccabees — 4:22

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΣ.

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.

• ΘΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΝ — Ptolemy
• ΚΑΙΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ — and Ptolemy, and of Ptolemy
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΕΙΣ — Ptolemaeans, people of Ptolemais
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΕΥΣΙΝ — Ptolemy, the Ptolemies
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΕΩΝ — of Ptolemy, of the Ptolemies
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΕΙΣ — Ptolemies, the Ptolemies
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΕΥΣΙ — (to) Ptolemies, (to) Ptolemaic soldiers, (to) Ptolemaic people
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΙ — Ptolemies
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΝ — Ptolemy
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΣ — Ptolemy
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΣΔ' — Ptolemy IV
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ — of Ptolemy
• ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΩΝ — of the Ptolemies, Ptolemaic
• ΠΤΟΛΛΑΝ — Ptolla

This concordance database is in beta

That means it's an unfinished preview of what we're building and is still being refined and corrected. It was initially generated from Google Gemini 2.5. It will be edited and corrected over time, with additional information added as we go.

It is your responsibility to double-check anything important.

Please report any errors or important missing information.