ΣΤΗΘΟΣ, στηθος
STĒTHOS, stēthos
Sounds Like: STAY-thos
Translations: chest, breast, a chest, a breast
From the root: ΣΤΗΘΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the chest or breast, the upper part of the torso. It is typically used to describe the front part of the body between the neck and the abdomen, often in a literal sense, but can also be used metaphorically to refer to the heart or inner being.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G4749 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
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, ΣΤΗΘΟΣ.
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.
- ΣΤΗΘΕΙ — (to) the breast, (to) the chest, a breast, a chest
- ΣΤΗΘΕΣΙΝ — (to) breasts, (in) breasts, (on) breasts, (to) chest, (in) chest, (on) chest
- ΣΤΗΘΕΣΣΙ — (to) breasts, (to) chests
- ΣΤΗΘΕΩΝ — of breasts, of chests, of the chest, of the breast
- ΣΤΗΘΗ — breasts, chest
- ΣΤΗΘΟΥΣ — of the breast, of the chest, of the bosom
- ΣΤΗΘΥΝΙΑ — breasts, chests, breast-pieces
- ΣΤΗΘΥΝΙΟΝ — breast, a breast, breast-piece, a breast-piece
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