ΔΑΜΑΛΕΙΣ, δαμαλεις
DAMALEIS, damaleis
Sounds Like: dah-mah-LICE
Translations: heifers, young cows, calves
From the root: ΔΑΜΑΛΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to young cows or heifers, typically those that have not yet calved. It is used to describe female cattle, often in a context related to livestock or sacrifice. In the provided examples, it refers to actual animals, but it can also be used metaphorically, as in the second example from Amos, where it refers to the wealthy women of Samaria who oppress the poor.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1151 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Numbers — 7:17, 7:23, 7:29, 7:35, 7:41, 7:47, 7:53, 7:59, 7:65, 7:71, 7:77, 7:83, 7:88
- 2 Kings — 10:29, 17:16
- Amos — 4:1
- Joel — 1:17
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΑΜΑΛΙΣ.
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.
- ΔΑΜΑ — heifer, a heifer, calf, a calf
- ΔΑΜΑΛ — heifer, a heifer, young cow, a young cow
- ΔΑΜΑΛΕΙ — heifer, a heifer, calf, a calf
- ΔΑΜΑΛΕΣΙ — to a heifer, to heifers, to a calf, to calves
- ΔΑΜΑΛΕΣΙΝ — (to) heifers, (to) young cows
- ΔΑΜΑΛΕΩΝ — of heifers, of young cows
- ΔΑΜΑΛΕΩΣ — (of) heifer, (of) a heifer, (of) calf, (of) a calf
- ΔΑΜΑΛΙ — heifer, a heifer, young cow, a young cow
- ΔΑΜΑΛΙΔΟΣ — of a heifer, of a young cow
- ΔΑΜΑΛΙΝ — heifer, a heifer, young cow, a young cow
- ΔΑΜΑΛΙΣ — heifer, a heifer, calf, a calf
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