ΤΑΣΠΗΛΑΙΑ, τασπηλαια
TASPĒLAIA, taspēlaia
Sounds Like: tas-spee-LAI-ah
Translations: caves, the caves
From the root: ΣΠΗΛΑΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is a compound of the definite article "τὰς" (tas), meaning "the" (feminine accusative plural), and "σπηλαῖα" (spēlaia), meaning "caves" (neuter nominative/accusative plural). It refers to multiple caves. In the provided context, it functions as the direct object of a preposition, indicating movement into or towards caves.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Neuter
Strong’s number: G4613 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:203
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΠΗΛΑΙΟΝ.
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.
- ΠΗΛΑΙΟ — cave, a cave, den, a den
- ΠΗΛΑΙ‾Ο‾ — cave, a cave, den, a den
- ΣΠΗΛΑΙΑ — caves, a cave
- ΣΠΗΛΑΙΟΙΣ — caves, in caves, to caves
- ΣΠΗΛΑΙΟΝ — cave, a cave, den, a den
- ΣΠΗΛΑΙΟΥ — of a cave, of the cave, a cave, the cave
- ΣΠΗΛΑΙΩ — (to) a cave, (to) the cave
- ΣΠΗΛΑΙΩΝ — of caves, of dens
- ΣΠΗΛΑΙ‾Ο‾ — cave, a cave, den, a den
- ΣΠΗΛΕΑ — caves, dens
- ΣΠΗΛΕΟ — cave, a cave, den, a den
- ΣΠΗΛΕΟΙΣ — to caves, in caves
- ΣΠΗΛΕΟΝ — cave, a cave, den, a den
- ΣΠΗΛΕΩ — cave, a cave, den, a den
- ΤΟΙΣΣΠΗΛΑΙΟΙΣ — to caves, in caves, for caves
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