ΣΩΡΟΙΣ, σωροις
SŌROIS, sōrois
Sounds Like: SOH-roys
Translations: heaps, piles, mounds
From the root: ΣΩΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a heap, pile, or mound of something, often of bodies or rubble. It is used to describe an accumulation of items, typically in a disorganized or large quantity. In the provided context, it refers to piles of dead bodies.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5450 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 5:6
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΩΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΣΩΡ — heap, a heap, pile, a pile, mound, a mound
- ΣΩΡΗΔΟΝ — in heaps, heap upon heap, in piles, in abundance
- ΣΩΡΟΙ — heaps, piles, mounds
- ΣΩΡΟΝ — heap, a heap, pile, a pile
- ΣΩΡΟΣ — heap, a heap, pile, a pile, mound, a mound
- ΣΩΡΟΥΣ — heaps, piles, mounds
- ΣΩΡΩ — to a heap, to a pile, to a mound, to a tomb, to a coffin
- ΣΩΡΩΝ — of heaps, to heaps, of piles, to piles, of mounds, to mounds
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