ΒΕΛΗ, βελη
BELĒ, belē
Sounds Like: BEH-lee
Translations: arrows, darts, missiles
From the root: ΒΕΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to arrows, darts, or other projectiles. It is typically used in a military or hunting context, describing weapons that are shot from a bow or thrown. It can also be used metaphorically to describe things that are swift or piercing.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G0956 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 17:3
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 11:26
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Maccabees — 6:51
- Psalms — 7:14, 10:2, 17:15, 37:3, 44:6, 56:5, 76:18, 119:4, 126:4, 143:6
- Job — 6:4, 16:9
- Isaiah — 5:28
- Ephesians — 6:16
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 3:10, 19:25, 19:34, 22:3
- Book Three — 7:42, 7:131
- Book Four — 1:76, 7:46, 9:99
- Book Five — 1:16, 11:19
- Book Six — 1:75
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 38:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Deuteronomy — 32:23, 32:42
- 2 Samuel — 18:14, 22:15
- 2 Kings — 13:15
- 1 Maccabees — 6:51
- Psalms — 7:14, 10:2, 17:15, 37:3, 44:6, 56:5, 76:18, 119:4, 126:4, 143:6
- Odes — 2:23, 2:42
- Job — 6:4, 16:10
- Isaiah — 5:28
- Enoch — 17:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Ephesians — 6:16
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΕΛΟΣ.
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.
- ΒΕΛΕΙ — to a dart, to an arrow, to a missile, to a javelin
- ΒΕΛΕΣΙ — with arrows, by arrows, with darts, by darts
- ΒΕΛΕΣΙΝ — (to) arrows, (with) arrows, (by) arrows
- ΒΕΛΟΣ — arrow, a arrow, dart, a dart, missile, a missile
- ΒΕΛΟΥΣ — of a dart, of an arrow, of a javelin, of a missile
- ΒΕΛΩΝ — of darts, of arrows, of javelins
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