2001 Translation

YLĒS, ylēs

Sounds Like: HOO-lays

Translations: of wood, of forest, of material, of matter, a forest, a wood, a material, a matter

From the root: ΥΛΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to wood, a forest, or more broadly, to material or matter. It can be used to describe the substance from which something is made, or a collection of trees. In a philosophical context, it can refer to the raw material of the universe.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5207 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:2, 4:32, 4:35, 4:42, 5:13

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 38:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• Wisdom — 11:17, 15:13

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 6:102, 6:103
• Book 4 — 3:55
• Book 5 — 8:249
• Book 8 — 2:52, 3:63, 3:68, 11:280, 12:306
• Book 9 — 8:164
• Book 12 — 2:62, 2:77
• Book 13 — 3:66
• Book 15 — 9:339, 11:395
• Book 18 — 9:366

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Three — 7:31, 7:78, 7:96, 7:97, 8:33, 10:44
• Book Five — 3:10, 5:29, 11:26, 12:6, 12:32
• Book Six — 1:5, 1:11, 3:2, 8:2
• Book Seven — 5:41

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 10:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 69:4

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 2:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Maccabees — 2:24
• Wisdom — 11:17, 15:13

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
• ΥΛΗ — wood, a wood, forest, a forest, material, matter, a matter
• ΥΛΗΝ — material, matter, wood, a wood, forest, a forest

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