2001 Translation

AXIA, axia

Sounds Like: ax-EE-ah

Translations: worthy, deserving, fitting, proper, a worthy thing

From the root: ἈΞΙΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes something or someone as having a certain value, merit, or worth. It is used to indicate that something is deserving of a particular treatment, honor, or consequence, or that it is appropriate and fitting for a given situation. It often implies a correspondence between a person's character or actions and what they receive.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G0514 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:10, 1:171

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 21:8

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:32, 12:16

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 15:1
• Ignatius’ Letter to Polycarp — 6:2

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 6:140
• Book 4 — 6:143
• Book 6 — 13:315
• Book 8 — 1:11, 2:23, 2:38, 4:128, 5:132
• Book 11 — 5:144, 5:183
• Book 12 — 2:14, 6:216, 6:218
• Book 13 — 13:356, 15:393, 16:417, 16:419
• Book 14 — 5:82, 10:212

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 22:15
• Book Two — 18:15, 18:17
• Book Five — 1:36, 5:7
• Book Six — 4:34, 8:35

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 43:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 16:3, 30:1, 94:5, 112:4

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 48:250

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 4:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 10:54
• 2 Maccabees — 7:18, 7:20
• 4 Maccabees — 11:6
• Job — 11:6, 33:27
• Wisdom — 19:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 10:13
• Luke — 12:48, 23:41
• Acts — 26:20
• Romans — 8:18

From the same root

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

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.

• ἈΞΙΑΙ — worthy, deserving, fitting, suitable, proper, a worthy one, worthy ones, a deserving one, deserving ones
• ἈΞΙΑΣ — worthy, deserving, fitting, suitable, due, proper, of worth, of dignity, value, worth, dignity, an office, a position
• ἈΞΙΕ — worthy, deserving, a worthy one, a deserving one, O worthy one, O deserving one
• ἈΞΙΟΙ — worthy, deserving, fitting, suitable, worthy ones, deserving ones
• ἈΞΙΟΝ — worthy, deserving, fitting, proper, a worthy thing, a fitting thing
• ἈΞΙΟΣ — worthy, deserving, fit, suitable, a worthy one, a deserving one
• ἈΞΙΟΥΣ — worthy, deserving, fit, a worthy one, a deserving one, a fit one
• ἈΞΙΩΣ — worthily, appropriately, suitably, justly, in a manner worthy of
• ἈΞΙΩΤΑΤΟΝ — most worthy, most deserving, most fitting, most appropriate, a most worthy thing
• ἈΞΙΩΤΕΡΟΝ — more worthy, worthier, more deserving, more suitable, more honorable
• ἈΞΙΩΤΕΡΟΣ — more worthy, worthier, more deserving, more suitable
• ἈΞΙΩΤΕΡΩ — more worthily, more suitably, more appropriately, more justly

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