2001 Translation

CHEIRAS, cheiras

Sounds Like: KHEI-ras

Translations: hands

From the root: ΧΕΙΡ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to hands, the physical appendages at the end of the arm. It is used in various contexts, often literally for actions involving the hands, but also metaphorically to signify power, control, or agency. For example, something might be 'in the hands of' someone, meaning under their control.

Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5495 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 98:12

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:305, 1:306

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 12:2, 12:4, 12:9, 13:5, 19:9

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:83, 6:7

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 2:3, 29:1

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judges — 4:7
• 2 Esdras — 13:2, 18:6, 23:13
• Esther — 3:9, 3:10, 9:16
• Judith — 6:10, 7:25, 10:15
• Tobit — 3:11, 11:4
• 1 Maccabees — 12:42, 15:25
• 4 Maccabees — 4:11, 9:11, 9:26, 10:5, 15:20
• Psalms — 9:35, 17:35, 21:17, 25:6, 27:2, 30:6, 30:9, 36:33, 40:3, 43:21, 46:2, 57:11, 62:5, 62:11, 72:13, 73:3, 77:61, 87:10, 113:15, 124:3, 133:2, 137:7, 142:6
• Proverbs — 19:24, 31:19, 31:20
• Song of Solomon — 5:5
• Job — 4:3, 17:9
• Wisdom — 8:12
• Sirach — 2:18, 25:26, 33:26, 38:10, 40:14, 46:2, 50:20, 51:19
• Isaiah — 11:14, 51:23
• Jeremiah — 39:4, 51:30
• Lamentations — 0:17
• Nahum — 3:19
• Matthew — 17:22, 18:8
• Mark — 7:3, 9:43
• Luke — 5:13, 22:53
• John — 20:27
• Acts of the Apostles — 6:6
• Romans — 10:21
• 1 Timothy — 5:22
• James — 4:8
• Epistle of Barnabas — 12:4

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:204, 22:209, 35:243
• Book Two — 35:243

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 16:243
• Book 2 — 3:31, 4:53, 10:251
• Book 3 — 1:10, 1:13, 1:26, 2:41, 2:53, 2:54, 6:114
• Book 4 — 1:10, 3:40, 6:117, 8:222
• Book 5 — 1:47, 1:73, 4:196, 8:268, 11:356
• Book 6 — 9:174, 12:244, 13:319
• Book 7 — 12:317, 13:323
• Book 8 — 3:87
• Book 9 — 8:159, 9:200, 13:268
• Book 10 — 11:269
• Book 11 — 5:143, 8:315
• Book 12 — 2:106
• Book 13 — 8:232
• Book 14 — 4:64, 13:359, 13:367, 14:379, 15:402, 16:474
• Book 15 — 5:113, 5:120, 5:149, 5:151
• Book 16 — 11:365
• Book 17 — 2:30, 7:185, 10:278, 10:279, 10:297
• Book 18 — 6:201
• Book 19 — 6:294
• Book 20 — 4:78

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:10, 3:11, 5:9, 8:6, 10:8, 26:2, 31:8, 32:8, 32:18
• Book Two — 4:8, 5:12, 8:25, 9:13, 18:35, 19:2, 21:17
• Book Three — 10:12, 10:34, 10:66
• Book Four — 1:78, 3:11, 3:31, 3:63, 6:7, 7:32, 8:38, 9:43
• Book Five — 2:6, 3:5, 9:16, 9:33, 9:39, 12:29
• Book Six — 1:22, 2:30, 9:6
• Book Seven — 5:49, 8:111, 8:134, 9:7

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 35:1, 38:1, 49:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 12:3, 22:2, 24:4, 27:2, 31:6, 40:4, 56:19, 70:2, 86:1, 90:4, 93:4, 95:4, 97:1, 97:2, 97:3, 97:4, 98:4, 104:1, 105:5, 111:1, 114:2, 114:3, 133:5

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 27:134, 34:172, 34:173, 35:177, 44:222, 44:224, 47:244, 58:302

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 14:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 9:2, 16:9, 19:10, 24:22, 24:30, 24:47, 27:17, 39:6, 39:8, 40:11, 46:4, 48:14
• Exodus — 5:21, 9:8, 9:29, 9:33, 17:11, 17:12, 21:13, 21:20, 23:31, 28:37, 29:9, 29:10, 29:15, 29:19, 29:24, 29:29, 29:33, 29:35, 30:19, 30:21, 32:29, 38:27
• Leviticus — 3:2, 3:8, 3:13, 4:5, 4:15, 8:14, 8:18, 8:22, 8:27, 8:33, 9:17, 9:22, 15:11, 16:12, 16:21, 16:32, 24:14, 26:25
• Numbers — 3:3, 5:18, 6:19, 7:88, 8:10, 8:12, 21:34, 27:18, 27:23
• Deuteronomy — 1:27, 2:24, 2:30, 2:36, 3:2, 3:3, 7:2, 7:23, 7:24, 15:8, 15:11, 19:12, 20:13, 21:6, 21:10, 24:1, 24:3, 33:3, 34:9
• Joshua — 8:1, 8:18, 10:6, 10:8, 10:19, 10:30, 10:32, 21:44, 24:8, 24:11, 24:33
• Judges — 1:4, 2:14, 4:7, 9:24, 14:9, 20:28
• 1 Samuel — 12:9, 14:10, 14:12, 14:13, 14:19, 14:37, 17:47, 18:25, 22:17, 23:4, 23:7, 23:14, 23:16, 23:20, 24:5, 24:19, 26:8, 26:23, 27:1, 28:19, 30:15, 30:23
• 2 Samuel — 4:12, 5:19, 13:19, 18:12, 22:35, 24:14
• 1 Kings — 8:22, 8:38, 10:19, 11:27, 15:18, 21:6, 21:13, 22:6, 22:12, 22:34
• 2 Kings — 3:11, 3:13, 4:34, 9:23, 10:24, 11:16, 12:11, 12:15, 13:16, 19:10, 21:14
• 1 Chronicles — 5:20, 6:31, 14:10, 21:13, 29:5
• 2 Chronicles — 6:12, 6:13, 6:29, 13:9, 13:16, 16:8, 18:5, 18:11, 18:14, 24:24, 25:20, 28:5, 28:9, 29:23, 29:31
• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:50, 6:14, 7:15, 8:70, 9:20, 9:47
• Ezra (Beta) — 3:10, 4:4, 5:12, 6:22, 8:26, 9:5
• Nehemiah — 3:2, 6:9, 9:24, 9:28
• Esther — 1:1, 4:17, 6:2, 8:7
• Judith — 6:10, 7:25, 10:15
• Tobit — 3:11, 11:4
• 1 Maccabees — 4:30, 4:31, 7:35, 12:39, 12:42, 14:31, 15:25
• 2 Maccabees — 3:20, 6:26, 7:10, 7:31, 14:34, 15:12, 15:21
• 3 Maccabees — 5:5, 5:25
• 4 Maccabees — 4:11, 8:13, 9:11, 9:26, 10:5, 15:20, 17:19
• Psalms — 9:35, 17:35, 21:17, 25:6, 27:2, 30:6, 30:9, 36:33, 40:3, 43:21, 46:2, 57:11, 62:5, 62:11, 72:13, 73:3, 77:61, 87:10, 105:41, 105:42, 113:15, 118:48, 122:2, 124:3, 133:2, 137:7, 142:6, 143:1, 144:16
• Psalms of Solomon — 2:7, 2:24
• Odes — 9:32
• Proverbs — 6:3, 11:21, 16:6, 19:21, 24:33, 29:37, 29:38
• Ecclesiastes — 4:5, 7:27
• Song of Solomon — 5:5
• Job — 4:3, 9:24, 11:13, 15:22, 15:25, 16:12, 17:9, 27:23
• Sirach — 2:18, 4:19, 8:1, 11:6, 14:25, 30:30, 30:34, 38:10, 38:15, 38:31, 40:14, 45:15, 46:2, 48:20, 50:20, 51:19
• Isaiah — 1:15, 11:14, 19:4, 22:21, 25:11, 29:12, 33:15, 37:27, 45:9, 51:23, 56:2, 65:2
• Jeremiah — 3:8, 4:31, 12:7, 18:21, 20:4, 20:5, 21:7, 21:10, 22:25, 26:24, 33:24, 36:21, 39:4, 39:24, 39:25, 39:28, 39:36, 39:43, 41:2, 41:3, 41:21, 44:17, 45:3, 45:4, 45:10, 45:16, 45:18, 45:19, 46:17, 47:4, 50:3, 51:30
• Lamentations — 1:7, 1:17, 2:15, 2:19, 4:6
• Ezekiel — 7:21, 10:7, 11:9, 13:22, 16:11, 16:39, 21:31, 23:9, 23:28, 23:31, 23:42, 30:25, 31:11, 39:23, 43:26
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:32, 13:22, 13:23, 13:34
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 1:2, 2:38, 3:32, 7:25, 11:11, 13:22, 13:23, 13:34
• Amos — 5:19
• Micah — 2:1, 7:3, 7:16
• Joel — 3:8
• Nahum — 3:19
• Zephaniah — 3:1
• Zechariah — 1:21, 11:6

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 3:2

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 1 — 2:2
• Vision 3 — 8:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 15:2, 17:22, 18:8, 19:13, 19:15, 22:13, 26:45, 26:50, 27:24
• Mark — 5:23, 6:5, 7:3, 8:23, 8:25, 9:31, 9:43, 10:16, 14:41, 14:46, 16:18
• Luke — 4:40, 9:44, 13:13, 20:19, 21:12, 22:53, 23:46, 24:7, 24:39, 24:50
• John — 7:44, 11:44, 13:3, 13:9, 20:20, 20:27, 21:18
• Acts — 4:3, 5:18, 6:6, 8:17, 8:19, 9:12, 9:17, 12:1, 13:3, 19:6, 21:11, 21:27, 28:8, 28:17
• Romans — 10:21
• 2 Corinthians — 11:33
• 1 Timothy — 2:8, 5:22
• Hebrews — 10:31, 12:12
• James — 4:8

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 1:6, 4:5, 16:4

From the same root

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

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.

• ΕΙΡΑΣ — hands
• ΙΑΧΕΙΡΑΝ — hand, a hand
• ΤΑΣΧΕΙΡΑΣ — the hands
• ΤΗΣΧΕΙΡΟΣ — (of) the hand, (of) a hand
• ΧΕΙΡ — hand, a hand, power, agency, a means
• ΧΕΙΡʼ — hand, a hand, (of) hand, (to) hand, power, a power, (of) power, (to) power, agency, a agency, (of) agency, (to) agency
• ΧΕΙΡΑ — hand, a hand
• ΧΕΙΡΑʼ — hand, a hand, (with) hand, (by) hand, (into) hand, (to) hand
• ΧΕΙΡΑΙΣ — to hands, with hands, by hands, in hands
• ΧΕΙΡΑΙΣΤΑ — hands, with hands, by hands
• ΧΕΙΡΑΝ — hand, a hand
• ΧΕΙΡΕ — hands, a hand
• ΧΕΙΡΕΙ — he attempts, he undertakes, he tries, he endeavors
• ΧΕΙΡΕΣ — hands
• ΧΕΙΡΗ — hand, a hand
• ΧΕΙΡΙ — to hand, by hand, in hand, with hand, by the hand, in the hand, with the hand
• ΧΕΙΡΙΣΙ — to hands, with hands, by hands
• ΧΕΙΡΟ — of hand, of a hand, of the hand, by hand, with hand
• ΧΕΙΡΟΣ — of hand, of a hand, of the hand, of power, of authority, of control
• ΧΕΙΡΟΣΙ — (to) hand, (to) hands
• ΧΕΡ — hand, a hand, (of) hand, (to) hand
• ΧΕΡΑΙ — hands, (in) hands, (with) hands, (by) hands
• ΧΕΡΕΣ — hands
• ΧΕΡΙΝ — hand, a hand, (by) hand, (with) hand, (in) hand, (to) hand
• ΧΕΡΙΩ — hand, a hand, power, strength, might, a means, a person
• ΧΕΡΝΗΤΙΣ — spinner, handmaid, one who works with her hands, a spinner, a handmaid, a poor woman
• ΧΕΡΟΙΝ — to two hands, with two hands, in two hands
• ΧΕΡΟΝΤΩΝ — of hands
• ΧΕΡΣΙ — to hands, with hands, in hands
• ΧΕΡΣΙΝ — (to) hands, (with) hands, (in) hands, hands
• ΧΙΡ — hand, a hand, of hand, to hand
• ΧΙΡΑ — hand, a hand, power, strength, agency
• ΧΙΡΑʼ — of hand, of a hand, of a person, of a side, of a power, of a means
• ΧΙΡΑΕΣ — hands
• ΧΙΡΑΙΣ — hands, with hands, by hands
• ΧΙΡΑΝ — hand, a hand
• ΧΙΡΑΣ — hands, a hand
• ΧΙΡΕΙ — hand, a hand, by hand, with the hand, (in) the hand
• ΧΙΡΕΣ — hands, a hand
• ΧΙΡΙ — (to) hand, (by) hand, (in) hand, (with) hand, (by) means, (through) means
• ΧΙΡΟΝΕΣ — hands, a hand
• ΧΙΡΟΣ — of hand, of a hand, of a person's hand, of a person's power, of a person's agency
• ΧΙΡΟΥΣ — hands, (of) hands, (to) hands
• ΧΙΡΩ — of hands, hands
• ΧΙΡΩΝ — hands, of hands
• Χ‾Η‾ — hand, a hand, (of) hand, (to) hand

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