ΦΑΙΔΡΟΣ, φαιδρος
PHAIDROS, phaidros
Sounds Like: FAY-dross
Translations: bright, radiant, shining, cheerful, joyful, splendid
From the root: ΦΑΙΔΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something as bright, radiant, or shining, often in a literal sense like a light or a star. It can also be used metaphorically to describe a person's disposition as cheerful or joyful, or something as splendid or glorious. It typically modifies a noun, agreeing with it in gender, number, and case.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5339 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΑΙΔΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΦΑΙΔΡΟΙ — bright, cheerful, radiant, joyful, glad, happy
- ΦΑΙΔΡΟΝ — bright, radiant, cheerful, a bright thing, a radiant thing, a cheerful thing
- ΦΑΙΔΡΟΤΕΡΟΝ — brighter, more cheerful, more radiant, a brighter thing
- ΦΕΔΡΟΙ — bright, cheerful, joyful, radiant, glad, a bright one, a cheerful one
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