2001 Translation

STORGĒN, storgēn

Sounds Like: stor-GAYN

Translations: affection, love, natural affection, an affection, a love

From the root: ΣΤΟΡΓΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to natural affection, especially the love felt between family members, such as parents and children, or between siblings. It describes a deep, innate bond of fondness and care. It can be used in sentences to describe the feeling of love or affection towards someone or something.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G4749 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• 4 Maccabees — 14:14

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 19 — 6:299

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 3 Maccabees — 5:32
• 4 Maccabees — 14:14

From the same root

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

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.

• ΣΤΟΡΓΑΙ — affections, loves, natural affection, family love
• ΣΤΟΡΓΑΣ — of natural affection, of familial love, of affection, of love
• ΣΤΟΡΓΗ — natural affection, a natural affection, family love, parental love
• ΣΤΟΡΓΗΣ — of affection, of love, of natural affection, of family love

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