ΣΦΕΤΕΡΟΥΣ, σφετερους
SPHETEROUS, spheterous
Sounds Like: SFE-teh-ROOS
Translations: their own, their
From the root: ΣΦΕΤΕΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is a possessive adjective meaning 'their own'. It emphasizes the ownership or relationship of something to a group of people, distinguishing it from things belonging to others. It is used to refer to something that belongs specifically to the subject of the sentence.
Inflection: Accusative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G4979 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 18:8, 21:40
- Book Three — 7:144
- Book Four — 7:40, 11:12
- Book Five — 2:12, 2:13, 7:23
- Book Six — 1:78, 3:5, 6:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΦΕΤΕΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΣΦΕΤΕΡΑ — their own, their, their own things
- ΣΦΕΤΕΡΑΝ — their own, their
- ΣΦΕΤΕΡΑΣ — of their own, their own, of their, their
- ΣΦΕΤΕΡΟΙ — their own, their
- ΣΦΕΤΕΡΟΙΣ — (to) their own, (for) their own, (to) their, (for) their
- ΣΦΕΤΕΡΟΝ — their own, their, his own, his, her own, her, its own, its
- ΣΦΕΤΕΡΟΣ — their own, his own, her own, its own
- ΣΦΕΤΕΡΟΥ — of their own, their own
- ΣΦΕΤΕΡΩ — their own, his own, her own, its own
- ΣΦΕΤΕΡΩΝ — of their own, of their, of their own people, of their own things
- ΤΟΥΣΣΦΕΤΕΡΟΥΣ — their own, their
- ΤΩΝΣΦΕΤΕΡΩΝ — of their own, their own
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