ΣΤΕΓΗΝ, στεγην
STEGĒN, stegēn
Sounds Like: STEG-ayn
Translations: roof, a roof, house, a house, dwelling, a dwelling
From the root: ΣΤΕΓΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a roof, often by extension meaning the entire house or dwelling. It is used to denote the covering of a building or the habitation itself.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4721 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 3:68
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΕΓΗ.
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.
- ΣΤΕΓ — roof, a roof, house, a house, dwelling, a dwelling
- ΣΤΕΓΑΙ — roofs, a roof, decks, a deck, coverings, a covering
- ΣΤΕΓΑΙΣ — to roofs, for roofs, to houses, for houses, to dwellings, for dwellings
- ΣΤΕΓΑΣ — of a roof, of a covering, of a shelter
- ΣΤΕΓΕΣΙΝ — to roofs, to houses, to dwellings, to a roof, to a house, to a dwelling
- ΣΤΕΓΗ — roof, a roof, house, a house, dwelling, a dwelling
- ΣΤΕΓΗΣ — of a roof, of a house, of a dwelling, of a shelter
- ΤΕΓΗ — roof, a roof, covering, a covering
- ΤΕΓΩΝ — of a roof, of roofs, of a covering, of coverings
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