ΣΑΘΡΟΥΣ, σαθρους
SATHROUS, sathrous
Sounds Like: sah-THROOS
Translations: rotten, unsound, worthless, decaying, crumbling
From the root: ΣΑΘΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is decaying, unsound, or worthless. It can refer to physical structures that are crumbling or in disrepair, or it can be used metaphorically to describe moral character that is corrupt or depraved. It is often used to indicate a state of deterioration or instability.
Inflection: Masculine, Accusative, Plural
Strong’s number: G4550 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 1:25
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΑΘΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΣΑΘΡΑ — rotten, unsound, worthless, corrupt, a rotten, an unsound, a worthless, a corrupt
- ΣΑΘΡΟΣ — rotten, unsound, worthless, corrupt, bad
- ΣΑΘΡΟΤΕΡΟΝ — more rotten, more unsound, more worthless, more corrupt, more decayed
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