ΔΡΙΜΕΙΣ, δριμεις
DRIMEIS, drimeis
Sounds Like: DRI-mays
Translations: sharp, severe, harsh, piercing, keen
From the root: ΔΡΙΜΥΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is sharp, severe, or harsh. It can refer to physical sharpness, like a keen edge, or to a more abstract severity, such as a harsh word, a severe punishment, or a piercing gaze. In its plural form, as seen in ΔΡΙΜΕΙΣ, it would describe multiple things or people as being sharp, severe, or harsh.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G1405 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 123:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΡΙΜΥΣ.
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.
- ΔΡΙΜ — sharp, keen, pungent, severe, harsh, bitter
- ΔΡΙΜΥΣ — sharp, pungent, severe, harsh, bitter, acrid
- ΔΡΙΜΥΤΕΡΟΝ — sharper, more pungent, more severe, more biting, more sharply, more pungently, more severely, more biting
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