ἈΣΗΜΟΣ, ἀσημος
ASĒMOS, asēmos
Sounds Like: ah-SEE-mos
Translations: insignificant, unknown, obscure, unimportant, ignoble, not notable, not distinguished
From the root: ἈΣΗΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone as insignificant, unknown, or obscure. It is often used in Koine Greek with a negation (οὐκ ἀσήμος, 'not insignificant') to mean 'notable' or 'distinguished'. It is a compound word formed from the negative prefix ἀ- (a-, 'not') and σῆμα (sēma, 'sign' or 'mark'), literally meaning 'without a mark' or 'unmarked'.
Inflection: Masculine, Nominative, Singular
Strong’s number: G0786 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 10:301
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΗΜΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΣΗΜΑ — unmarked, insignificant, worthless, unimportant, unintelligible, an unmarked thing, an insignificant thing
- ἈΣΗΜΟΙ — unknown, insignificant, obscure, ignoble, common, a common person
- ἈΣΗΜΟΙΣ — unimportant, insignificant, unknown, obscure, ignoble, common, base, worthless
- ἈΣΗΜΟΝ — unknown, insignificant, obscure, unimportant, ignoble, an unknown thing, an insignificant thing
- ἈΣΗΜΟΤΑΤΩΝ — of the most insignificant, of the most obscure, of the most unknown, of the most ignoble, of the most base
- ἈΣΗΜΩΝ — of insignificant, of obscure, of unknown, of ignoble, of undistinguished
- ΤΩΝἈΣΗΜΩΝ — (of) the insignificant, (of) the obscure, (of) the unknown, (of) the ignoble, (of) the common, (of) the unmarked
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