ἈΣΤΕΟΣ, ἀστεος
ASTEOS, asteos
Sounds Like: AS-teh-os
Translations: (of) city, (of) a city, (of) town, (of) a town
From the root: ἈΣΤΥ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is the genitive singular form of the noun 'ἈΣΤΥ' (ASTY), which means 'city' or 'town'. As a genitive case, 'ἈΣΤΕΟΣ' indicates possession, origin, or separation, often translated with 'of' in English. For example, it could refer to something 'of the city' or 'from the city'.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Neuter
Strong’s number: G0089 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 2:9, 8:1, 22:14
- Book Two — 10:6
- Book Four — 9:48
- Book Five — 5:5, 9:63, 13:42
- Book Six — 9:26
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΤΥ.
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.
- ἈΣΤΥ — city, a city, town, a town
- ΤΟἈΣΤΥ — the city, the town
- ΤΟΥἈΣΤΕΟΣ — of the city, of a city, of the town, of a town
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