2001 Translation

CHIŌ, chiō

Sounds Like: KHEE-ohn

Translations: snow, a snow

From the root: ΧΙΩΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to snow, the frozen precipitation. It is used in a general sense to describe the substance itself, often in comparisons to coldness or purity. The form 'ΧΙΩ' is likely a misspelling or a rare, non-standard inflection of 'ΧΙΩΝ'. The standard nominative singular form is 'ΧΙΩΝ'.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine (likely a misspelling or non-standard form of ΧΙΩΝ)

Strong’s number: G5510 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Unknown: Yes

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 16 — 2:18

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
• ΧΙΟΝΑ — 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
• ΧΙΩΝ — snow, a snow

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