ἈΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, ἀλεξανδρος
ALEXANDROS, alexandros
Sounds Like: ah-lek-SAN-dros
Translations: Alexander
From the root: ἈΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: This is a common Greek proper name, meaning 'defender of mankind' or 'protector of men'. It refers to various historical figures, most notably Alexander the Great, the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. It is used as a subject in sentences, indicating the person performing an action.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G220 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:46
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 15:240
- Book 11 — 8:305, 8:313, 8:317, 8:319, 8:325, 8:331, 8:340
- Book 12 — 1:1
- Book 13 — 2:43, 2:45, 2:58, 7:80, 7:83, 7:84, 7:85, 7:102, 7:108, 7:119, 9:256, 9:269, 12:334, 12:337, 12:338, 13:364, 13:372, 14:377, 14:383, 15:390, 15:393, 15:398, 16:407
- Book 14 — 1:18, 4:79, 5:85, 5:89, 6:100, 8:146, 10:222, 10:226, 12:307
- Book 16 — 4:104, 4:122, 8:255, 10:315, 10:319, 10:326, 10:331, 11:394, 11:401
- Book 17 — 13:349
- Book 18 — 5:131, 5:138, 5:139, 5:140, 6:160
- Book 20 — 5:100, 5:102, 10:241, 10:242
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 5:2, 5:9, 5:20, 8:18, 9:2, 9:5, 9:9, 9:18, 10:3, 25:1, 25:12, 25:23, 26:1, 26:4, 27:10, 27:17, 29:1
- Book Two — 7:9, 11:19, 12:13, 18:31, 18:36, 18:41
- Book Four — 10:33
- Book Five — 1:45, 5:22
- Book Six — 4:23
- Book Seven — 7:27
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Maccabees — 1:7, 6:2, 10:1, 10:15, 10:18, 10:23, 10:48, 10:49, 10:51, 10:58, 10:59, 10:68, 10:88, 11:9, 11:14, 11:15, 11:16
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΟΝ — Alexandrium, Alexandrian, a place of Alexander
- ἈΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΝ — Alexander
- ἈΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ — of Alexander
- ἈΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΩ — to Alexander, for Alexander, by Alexander
- ΤΟΝἈΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΝ — Alexander
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