ΓΕΡΟΝΤΑΣ, γεροντας
GERONTAS, gerontas
Sounds Like: geh-RON-tas
Translations: old man, an old man, elder, old men, elders
From the root: ΓΕΡΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to an old man or an elder. It is used to describe individuals who are advanced in age, often implying a position of respect or authority within a community due to their experience. In the provided examples, it is used in the plural form to refer to groups of old men.
Inflection: Masculine, Accusative, Plural
Strong’s number: G1122 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
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, ΓΕΡΩΝ.
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.
- ΓΕΡΑΙΑ — old, aged, an old woman
- ΓΕΡΑΙΤΑΤΟΣ — oldest, most venerable, most aged, most esteemed
- ΓΕΡΟΝ — old man, an old man, elder, old
- ΓΕΡΟΝΤΑ — old man, an old man
- ΓΕΡΟΝΤΕΣ — elders, old men, old people
- ΓΕΡΟΝΤΙ — to an old man, to an elder, to a senior
- ΓΕΡΟΝΤΟΣ — of an old man, of an elder, of a senior
- ΓΕΡΟΝΤΩΝ — (of) old men, (of) elders
- ΓΕΡΟΤΙ — to an old man, for an old man, by an old man, with an old man, an old man
- ΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΝ — to elders, for elders, to old men, for old men
- ΓΕΡΩΝ — old man, an old man, elder
- ΓΕΡΩΝΩΣΤ' — like an old man, as an old man, in the manner of an old man, and like an old man, also like an old man
- ΓΗΟΡΑΝ — old man, an old man, elder, an elder
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