ἘΔΑΦΟΣ, ἐδαφος
EDAPHOS, edaphos
Sounds Like: EH-da-phos
Translations: ground, a ground, floor, a floor, base, a base, foundation, a foundation, soil, a soil
From the root: ἘΔΑΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the ground, floor, or base upon which something rests or is built. It can denote the earth's surface, the floor of a building, or the underlying support of an object. It is used in a general sense to refer to the solid surface beneath one's feet.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G1759 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 14:17
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:88
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 6:140, 10:243
- Book 4 — 8:310
- Book 5 — 5:208, 5:209, 8:248
- Book 8 — 3:63, 3:74
- Book 10 — 7:126, 8:144
- Book 11 — 5:161
- Book 12 — 9:383
- Book 13 — 6:215, 6:217
- Book 15 — 10:347
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 19:99
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Kings — 6:29
- Judith — 5:18, 16:4
- 3 Maccabees — 1:29
- 4 Maccabees — 6:7
- Isaiah — 29:4
- Jeremiah — 38:35
- Ezekiel — 41:16
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 6:24, 14:19
- Enoch — 14:17
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 22:7
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΔΑΦΟΣ.
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.
- ἘΔΑΦΕΙ — (to) the ground, (on) the ground, (to) the earth, (on) the earth, (to) the floor, (on) the floor, a ground, an earth, a floor
- ἘΔΑΦΟΥΣ — of ground, of floor, of foundation, of base, of soil
- ἘΔΑΦΩΝ — of foundations, of grounds, of floors, of pavements, of bases
- ΤΟΥ̓ΔΑΦΟΣ — of the ground, of the floor, of the base, of the foundation
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