ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΑ, γραμματεα
GRAMMATEA, grammatea
Sounds Like: grah-ma-TEH-ah
Translations: scribe, a scribe, secretary, a secretary, clerk, a clerk
From the root: ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a person skilled in writing, a secretary, or a public notary. In a religious context, particularly in the New Testament, it often denotes a Jewish scholar or interpreter of the Law, often associated with the Pharisees. It is used to describe someone who records, writes, or keeps accounts.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1122 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 7 — 5:110, 11:293
- Book 10 — 4:55, 4:59, 6:94, 6:95, 8:149
- Book 11 — 6:248
- Book 16 — 10:319
- Book 20 — 9:208, 9:209
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Kings — 19:2, 22:3, 22:8, 25:19
- 2 Chronicles — 34:15
- Nehemiah — 8:13
- Isaiah — 37:2
- Jeremiah — 52:25
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ.
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.
- ΓΡΑΜʼΜΑΤΕΩΝ — of the scribes, of scribes
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑΙΩ — of the scribes, of a scribe, scribes
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑΙΩΝ — of scribes, of the scribes
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΙ — scribe, a scribe, (to) a scribe, (of) a scribe, secretary, a secretary, (to) a secretary, (of) a secretary, clerk, a clerk, (to) a clerk, (of) a clerk
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΙΣ — scribes, secretaries, clerks
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΟΥΣ — (of) a scribe, (of) scribes
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ — scribe, a scribe, secretary, a secretary, clerk, a clerk
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣΙΝ — to a scribe, to scribes, to a secretary, to secretaries
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΩ — of a scribe, of the scribes, of a secretary, of the secretaries, of a clerk, of the clerks
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΩΝ — (of) scribes, (of) a scribe, (of) secretaries, (of) a secretary
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΩΣ — (of) a scribe, (of) the scribe, (of) a secretary, (of) the secretary, (of) a clerk, (of) the clerk
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΑΙΣ — (to) scribes, (to) teachers of the law
- ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΣ — of a scribe, of a secretary, of a clerk, of a scholar, of a lawyer
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