ΧΕΙΡΟΥΣ, χειρους
CHEIROUS, cheirous
Sounds Like: kheh-ROOS
Translations: worse, inferior
From the root: ΧΕΙΡΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is a comparative adjective meaning 'worse' or 'inferior'. It is used to describe something that is of lower quality, less good, or more unfavorable than something else. It functions similarly to the English 'worse' in comparisons.
Inflection: Comparative, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine or Feminine, Plural
Strong’s number: G5501 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:137
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 1:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΕΙΡΩΝ.
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.
- ΧΕΙΡΟΝ — worse, a worse thing, inferior, more evil
- ΧΕΙΡΟΝΑ — worse, a worse thing, inferior, an inferior thing
- ΧΕΙΡΟΝΙ — (to) worse, (to) inferior
- ΧΕΙΡΟΝΟΣ — of worse, worse
- ΧΕΙΡΟΝΩΝ — (of) worse, (of) inferior, (of) worse things, (of) inferior things, (of) worse men, (of) inferior men
- ΧΕΙΡΩΝ — Chiron
- ΧΕΙΡΩΝΙ — (to) Cheiron
- ΧΙΡΟΝ — worse, worse off, more evil, more wicked
- ΧΙΡΟΝΑ — worse, more evil, inferior, more grievous
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