ἘΛΑΤΤΟΝ, ἐλαττον
ELATTON, elatton
Sounds Like: eh-LAHT-ton
Translations: less, smaller, fewer, a less thing, a smaller thing
From the root: ΕΛΑΤΤΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is the neuter singular form of the comparative adjective 'ἐλάττων', meaning 'less', 'smaller', or 'fewer'. It is used to indicate a lesser quantity, size, or number when comparing two things. It can function substantively, meaning 'a less thing' or 'that which is less'.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G1642 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 22:13
Aristeas
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 10:194
- Book 10 — 11:236
- Book 11 — 4:85
- Book 13 — 12:339, 13:376
- Book 14 — 5:85
- Book 15 — 5:140, 6:190, 6:193, 7:226, 8:293, 9:312, 9:334
- Book 16 — 5:150, 8:265, 11:404
- Book 19 — 5:291
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΛΑΤΤΩΝ.
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.
- ΑΤΤΟΥΣ — less, fewer, smaller, inferior
- ἘΛΑΤΤΟΝΑΣ — less, smaller, inferior, fewer
- ἘΛΑΤΤΟΝΙ — to less, to smaller, to inferior
- ἘΛΑΤΤΟΝΟΣ — (of) less, (of) smaller, (of) inferior
- ἘΛΑΤΤΟΝΩΝ — of lesser, of smaller, of inferior, of fewer
- ἘΛΑΤΤΟΥΣ — less, smaller, fewer, a lesser one, a smaller one
- ἘΛΑΤΤΩΣΙΣ — diminution, decrease, lessening, deficiency, loss, a diminution, a decrease
- ΕΛΑΤΤΟΝ — less, smaller, a lesser thing, a smaller thing
- ΕΛΑΤΤΟΝΩΝ — of less, of smaller, of fewer, of inferior
- ΕΛΑΤΤΟΣΙΣ — decrease, diminishing, loss, inferiority
- ΕΛΑΤΤΩΝ — less, smaller, inferior, worse
- ΟΥ̓ΚἘΛΑΤΤΟΝ — not less, no less, not smaller, no smaller, at least
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