ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, σκυθοπολιτων
SKYTHOPOLITŌN, skythopolitōn
Sounds Like: sky-tho-po-LEE-ton
Translations: of Scythopolitans, of the inhabitants of Scythopolis
From the root: ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the inhabitants of Scythopolis, an ancient city located in the Decapolis region, known today as Beit She'an in Israel. It is a compound word formed from 'Scythian' (ΣΚΥΘΗΣ) and 'city' (ΠΟΛΙΣ), literally meaning 'Scythian city' or 'city of Scythians', referring to the people of that city. It is used to describe people from that specific geographical location.
Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4651 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 6:183
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 18:10
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 9:42
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ.
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.
- ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΑΙ — Scythopolitans, people of Scythopolis
- ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΙΤΑΙ — Scythopolitans, inhabitants of Scythopolis
- ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ — Scythopolite, a Scythopolite, inhabitant of Scythopolis
- ΤΗΣΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ — of the Scythopolitans, of the inhabitants of Scythopolis
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