2001 Translation

PHYLŌN, phylōn

Sounds Like: FY-lon

Translations: of tribes, tribes

From the root: ΦΥΛΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word is the genitive plural form of the noun 'φυλή' (phylē), meaning 'tribe' or 'clan'. It refers to a group of people descended from a common ancestor or sharing a common origin, often used in the context of the twelve tribes of Israel or other ethnic divisions. As a genitive plural, it indicates possession or origin, meaning 'belonging to tribes' or 'from tribes'.

Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5443 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 8:3

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 43:2, 43:2

Codex Sinaiticus

• Tobit — 1:4
• Zechariah — 14:17
• Revelation — 7:9, 11:9, 21:12
• Epistle of Barnabas — 8:3

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 12:289, 12:293
• Book 4 — 2:19, 4:63, 8:186, 8:320
• Book 5 — 1:80
• Book 7 — 2:59, 13:319
• Book 8 — 8:222, 8:224, 10:246, 10:264, 11:274, 11:287, 12:298, 12:314, 15:393, 15:398
• Book 9 — 1:4, 7:142, 7:144, 10:216
• Book 10 — 1:1, 9:183, 9:185
• Book 11 — 1:8, 3:67

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 68:6, 118:1

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 1:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Numbers — 1:16, 7:2, 30:2, 31:4, 32:28, 36:3, 36:8
• Deuteronomy — 5:23, 12:14, 18:5
• Joshua — 4:5, 14:1, 21:1, 21:16, 22:14
• Judges — 18:1, 21:5, 21:8
• 2 Samuel — 15:2
• 1 Kings — 11:32, 14:21, 18:31
• 2 Kings — 21:7
• 1 Chronicles — 27:16, 27:22
• 2 Chronicles — 5:2, 6:5, 11:16, 12:13, 33:7
• Ezra (Beta) — 6:17
• Tobit — 1:4, 1:4
• Psalms of Solomon — 17:50
• Sirach — 45:11
• Ezekiel — 47:22, 48:1, 48:19, 48:23, 48:31
• Amos — 3:2
• Zechariah — 14:17

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Revelation — 7:9, 11:9, 21:12

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΥΛΗ.

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.

• ΦΥΛ — tribe, a tribe, nation, a nation, people, a people
• ΦΥΛΑ — tribes, clans, nations, peoples
• ΦΥΛΑΙ — tribes, clans, nations, peoples
• ΦΥΛΑΙΣ — tribes, (to) tribes, (for) tribes, (by) tribes, (with) tribes
• ΦΥΛΑΣΚΑΙ — tribe, clan, race, nation, people, a tribe, a clan
• ΦΥΛΕ — tribe, a tribe, clan, a clan, race, a race, nation, a nation
• ΦΥΛΗ — tribe, a tribe, race, a race, nation, a nation, people, a people
• ΦΥΛΗΝ — tribe, a tribe, race, a race, nation, a nation, clan, a clan
• ΦΥΛΗΣ — of a tribe, of a race, of a clan, of a nation
• ΦΥΛ‾Η‾ — tribe, a tribe, nation, a nation, race, a race, people, a people

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