ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ, ελληνες
ELLĒNES, ellēnes
Sounds Like: HEL-lay-nes
Translations: Greeks, a Greek
From the root: ΕΛΛΗΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the Greeks, specifically people of Greek origin or culture. It is used to denote the inhabitants of Greece or those who adopted Greek customs and language, often in contrast to other peoples like Jews or barbarians. It is typically used as a plural noun.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1672 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 1:39, 5:121, 6:124, 6:125, 6:136, 6:144
- Book 2 — 1:3
- Book 3 — 7:186, 8:217
- Book 8 — 6:154
- Book 11 — 6:184
- Book 12 — 5:241
- Book 13 — 5:185
- Book 18 — 9:372, 9:374, 9:375
Josephus' The Jewish War
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 3:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 3 Maccabees — 3:8
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
- ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ — Greeks, a Greek, a Gentile
- 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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