2001 Translation

GLŌSSĒS, glōssēs

Sounds Like: gloce-SEHS

Translations: (of) a tongue, (of) a language, (of) a nation

From the root: ΓΛΩΣΣΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the physical organ of the tongue, but it can also refer to a language spoken by people, or by extension, a people group or nation that speaks a particular language. It is used to indicate possession or origin, such as 'of a tongue' or 'belonging to a language'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G1100 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 14:9

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 21:7, 56:10, 57:2

Codex Sinaiticus

• Psalms — 119:2
• Proverbs — 3:16, 6:24, 15:4, 18:21, 24:22
• Job — 5:21
• Wisdom — 1:6, 1:11
• Sirach — 20:18, 25:7, 26:6, 28:17, 36:23, 51:2, 51:5, 51:6
• Isaiah — 28:11
• Jeremiah — 5:15, 23:31
• Mark — 7:33, 7:35
• 1 Corinthians — 14:9
• Revelation — 5:9
• Shepherd of Hermas — 6:3

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 6:108
• Book 17 — 5:133

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 25:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Samuel — 23:2
• 3 Maccabees — 2:17
• Psalms — 119:2
• Psalms of Solomon — 12:1, 12:2, 15:5
• Proverbs — 3:16, 6:24, 15:4, 17:4, 18:21, 24:22
• Job — 5:21
• Wisdom — 1:6, 1:11
• Sirach — 4:24, 20:18, 25:7, 26:6, 28:17, 36:28, 51:2, 51:5, 51:6
• Isaiah — 28:11
• Jeremiah — 5:15
• Hosea — 7:16
• Enoch — 14:9

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 2 — 2:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Mark — 7:33, 7:35
• 1 Corinthians — 14:9
• Revelation — 5:9

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΛΩΣΣΑ.

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.

• ΓΛΩΣΑΣΑ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language
• ΓΛΩΣΣΑ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language, speech, a speech
• ΓΛΩΣΣΑʼ — tongue, language, speech, a language, a tongue, a speech, (the number) 3000
• ΓΛΩΣΣΑΙ — tongues, languages, dialects
• ΓΛΩΣΣΑΙΣ — tongues, languages, (with fire) flames, (to) tongues, (to) languages, (to) flames
• ΓΛΩΣΣΑΝ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language, speech, a speech, nation, a nation
• ΓΛΩΣΣΑΣ — tongues, languages, nations
• ΓΛΩΣΣΕ — tongues, languages, speeches, to a tongue, to a language, to a speech, to tongues, to languages, to speeches
• ΓΛΩΣΣΕΙ — (to) tongue, (to) language, (to) speech, (to) dialect
• ΓΛΩΣΣΗ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language, speech, a speech
• ΓΛΩΣΣΙΗ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language, speech, a speech, nation, a nation
• ΓΛΩΣΣΩΔΗΣ — talkative, garrulous, verbose, wordy
• ΓΛΩΣΣΩΝ — of tongues, of languages, of speech, of words
• ΓΛΩΤΤΑΝ — tongue, a tongue, language, a language
• ΓΛΩΤΤΗ — (to) tongue, (to) a tongue, (to) language, (to) a language
• ΓΛΩΤΤΗΣ — of tongue, of language, of a tongue, of a language
• ΠΡΟΓΛΩΣΣΟΣ — talkative, garrulous, loquacious, prating
• ΣΣΑΣ — tongues, languages, a tongue, a language

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