ΥΛΗ, υλη
YLĒ, ylē
Sounds Like: HOO-lay
Translations: wood, a wood, forest, a forest, material, matter, a matter
From the root: ΥΛΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to wood, timber, or a forest. It can also denote material in a broader sense, or even the 'matter' or 'substance' from which something is made. In philosophical contexts, it can refer to prime matter or the raw material of the universe. It is a feminine noun.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G5207 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Codex Sinaiticus
- Job — 19:29
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Romans — 6:2
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 1:56
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Job — 19:29
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΛΗ.
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.
- ΤΗΝΥΛΗΝ — the wood, the forest, the matter, the material
- ΥΛΑ — material, matter, wood, a wood, forest, a forest
- ΥΛΑΙ — woods, forests, materials, matter
- ΥΛΑΙΣ — forests, woods, thickets, materials, matter
- ΥΛΗΝ — material, matter, wood, a wood, forest, a forest
- ΥΛΗΣ — of wood, of forest, of material, of matter, a forest, a wood, a material, a matter
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