ΒΟΡΡΑΝ, βορραν
BORHRAN, borhran
Sounds Like: bor-RHAHN
Translations: north, the north, to the north, northward
From the root: ΒΟΡΡΑΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the direction of north. It is often used to indicate movement or position towards the north, or simply the northern region.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0991 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 10:4
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 4:9
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 58:12
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 13:14, 28:14
- Exodus — 26:18, 26:35, 37:9, 40:20
- Leviticus — 1:11
- Numbers — 2:25, 3:35, 10:6, 34:7, 35:5
- Deuteronomy — 2:3, 3:27
- Joshua — 15:11, 17:9, 17:10, 18:19, 19:14, 19:27
- Judges — 12:1
- 1 Kings — 7:13
- 2 Kings — 16:14
- 1 Chronicles — 9:24
- 2 Chronicles — 4:4, 14:10
- Psalms — 88:13
- Ecclesiastes — 1:6
- Isaiah — 14:13
- Jeremiah — 3:12, 26:6
- Ezekiel — 8:3, 8:5, 8:14, 9:2, 40:19, 40:20, 40:35, 40:40, 40:44, 40:46, 41:11, 42:1, 42:2, 42:4, 42:7, 42:11, 42:13, 42:17, 44:4, 46:9, 46:19, 47:2, 47:15, 47:17, 48:1, 48:10, 48:16, 48:17, 48:30, 48:31
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 8:4, 8:9
- Zephaniah — 2:13
- Zechariah — 14:4
- Enoch — 28:3, 32:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΟΡΡΑΣ.
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.
- ΒΟΡ — north, north wind
- ΒΟΡʼΡΑ — north, north wind, the north
- ΒΟΡʼΡΑΝ — north, the north, a north wind, the north wind
- ΒΟΡ̓ΡΑ — of the north, of the north wind
- ΒΟΡΡΑ — of the north, from the north, north
- ΒΟΡΡΑʼ — to the North, to the North Wind, North, North Wind
- ΒΟΡΡΑΣ — North, north wind, a north wind
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