ΣΥΡΤΕΙΣ, συρτεις
SYRTEIS, syrteis
Sounds Like: SYR-tays
Translations: quicksands, shoals
From the root: ΣΥΡΤΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to quicksands or shoals, which are areas of sand or other sediment that can trap ships or people, making them dangerous. It is often used in the plural to denote such treacherous areas, particularly along coastlines.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4553 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 16:49
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΥΡΤΙΣ.
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.
- ΣΥΡΤΙΝ — quicksand, a quicksand, sandbank, a sandbank, shoal, a shoal
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