2001 Translation

CHIONA, chiona

Sounds Like: khee-O-nah

Translations: snow

From the root: ΧΙΩΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to snow, the frozen precipitation. It is used as a common noun to describe the white, crystalline substance that falls from the sky in cold weather.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5510 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 8:4, 18:7

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 13:22
• Psalms — 50:9, 147:5
• Sirach — 43:18
• Isaiah — 1:18
• Shepherd of Hermas — 68:3

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 61:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 31:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 13:22
• Psalms — 50:9, 147:5
• Sirach — 43:13, 43:17
• Isaiah — 1:18
• Lamentations — 4:7
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 7:9

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 8 — 2:3

From the same root

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

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.

• ΧΙΟΝ — snow, a snow
• ΧΙΟΝΕΣ — snows, snow
• ΧΙΟΝΗΝ — snow, a snow
• ΧΙΟΝΙ — (to) snow, a snow
• ΧΙΟΝΙΚΑ — snowy, snow-like, of snow, like snow, a snowy thing, snowy things
• ΧΙΟΝΟΣ — of snow, snow
• ΧΙΩ — snow, a snow
• ΧΙΩΝ — snow, a snow

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