ΕΡΠΕΤΩΝ, ερπετων
ERPETŌN, erpetōn
Sounds Like: her-pe-TON
Translations: of creeping things, of reptiles, of animals that creep, of serpents
From the root: ΕΡΠΕΤΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to creeping things, reptiles, or any animal that moves by creeping or crawling on the ground. It can encompass a wide range of creatures, from snakes and lizards to insects or other small, ground-dwelling animals. It is often used in a general sense to refer to the class of such creatures.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Neuter
Strong’s number: G2062 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 62:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 1:21, 1:26, 1:28, 6:7, 6:19, 6:20, 7:8, 7:23, 8:1
- Leviticus — 11:21, 11:29, 11:31
- 1 Kings — 4:29
- Wisdom — 17:9
- Letter of Jeremiah — 1:19
- Hosea — 2:18
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, ΕΡΠΕΤΟΝ.
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.
- ΕΡΠΕΤΑ — creeping thing, creeping things, reptile, reptiles, animal, animals
- ΕΡΠΕΤΙΝΑ — creeping things, reptiles, serpents, a creeping thing, a reptile, a serpent
- ΕΡΠΕΤΟΙΣ — (to) creeping things, (to) reptiles, (to) serpents
- ΕΡΠΕΤΟΝ — creeping thing, a creeping thing, reptile, a reptile, serpent, a serpent
- ΕΡΠΕΤΟΣ — of a creeping thing, of a reptile, of a serpent
- ΕΡΠΕΤΟΥ — of a creeping thing, of a reptile, of a snake, of an animal, of a beast
- ΕΡΠΕΤΩ — (to) a creeping thing, (to) a reptile, (to) an animal, (of) creeping things, (of) reptiles, (of) animals
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