ἈΡΙΣΤΕΡΑ, ἀριστερα
ARISTERA, aristera
Sounds Like: ah-ris-teh-RAH
Translations: left, left hand, a left hand, on the left
From the root: ἈΡΙΣΤΕΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something located on the left side or pertaining to the left hand. It is often used to indicate direction or position. In the provided context, it refers to the left hand, indicating an action performed with it.
Inflection: Singular, Feminine, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative
Strong’s number: G0710 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 9:338
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 13:8
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 13:9, 14:15
- Leviticus — 14:27
- Deuteronomy — 2:27, 5:32, 17:11, 17:20, 28:14
- Joshua — 1:7
- Judges — 16:29
- 1 Samuel — 6:12
- 2 Samuel — 2:19, 2:21, 14:19
- 1 Kings — 2:42
- 2 Kings — 22:2
- 2 Chronicles — 34:2
- Ezra (Alpha) — 4:30
- Judith — 2:21
- Proverbs — 3:16, 4:27
- Job — 23:9
- Isaiah — 30:21, 54:3
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 6:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΡΙΣΤΕΡΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΡΙΣΤΕΡΑΙΣ — to the left, with the left, on the left, left, left hand, left side
- ἈΡΙΣΤΕΡΑΝ — left, the left, the left hand, the left side
- ἈΡΙΣΤΕΡΑΣ — of the left, left, a left
- ἈΡΙΣΤΕΡΟΝ — left, a left thing, the left side, the left hand
- ἈΡΙΣΤΕΡΩΝ — of left, of the left, of the left side
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