Redirected from ελληναϲ, replacing lunate sigma Ϲϲ with normal sigma Σσ/ς.
ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ, ελληνας
ELLĒNAS, ellēnas
Sounds Like: HEL-lay-nas
Translations: Greeks, a Greek, a Gentile
From the root: ΕΛΛΗΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a Greek person, someone of Greek descent or culture. In a broader sense, especially in the New Testament, it can also refer to a Gentile, distinguishing them from Jews. It is used to describe people who are not Jewish, often implying a non-Christian or pagan background in a religious context. This specific form is the masculine accusative plural.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1672 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 8:20
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 12:67
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Isaiah — 9:12
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, ΕΛΛΗΝ.
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.
- ἘΛΙΗΝ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
- ΕΛΛ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
- ΕΛΛΗΝ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
- ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ — Greeks, a Greek
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙ — to a Greek, to a Gentile, to a Hellene, to a heathen, to a Greek-speaking person, to a Greek-speaking Jew
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΑΝΩΝ — of Greeks, of Hellenists, of Gentiles
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΣ — Greek, Hellenic
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΟΥ — of a Greek, of the Greek, of a Gentile, of the Gentile
- ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΙ — in Greek, in the Greek language, Greek-speaking
- ΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ — of a Greek, of a Gentile, of a Hellene
- ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ — of the Greeks, Greeks
- ΕΛΛΗΣ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
- ΕΛΛΗΣΙ — (to) Greeks, (to) Gentiles, (to) Heathens
- ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ — to Greeks, for Greeks, by Greeks
- ΕΛΛ‾Η‾ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
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