ἘΛΕΦΑΣ, ἐλεφας
ELEPHAS, elephas
Sounds Like: EL-eh-phas
Translations: elephant, an elephant, ivory
From the root: ἘΛΕΦΑΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to an elephant, the large land mammal. It can also refer to ivory, the material derived from an elephant's tusks. It is used as a masculine noun.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1663 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 7:181
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 5:46
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΛΕΦΑΣ.
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.
- ἘΛΕΦΑΝΣΙΝ — elephants, (to) elephants, (for) elephants
- ἘΛΕΦΑΝΤΟΣ — of elephant, of ivory, of an elephant, of an ivory
- ἘΛΕΦΑΝΤΩΝ — of elephants
- ἘΛΕΦΑΣΙ — (to) elephants, (for) elephants, (with) elephants, elephant, an elephant
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