2001 Translation

ZŌŌN, zōōn

Sounds Like: zoh-OHN

Translations: of living things, of animals, of creatures, of beasts

From the root: ΖΩΟΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to living beings, creatures, or animals. It is often used in a general sense to describe any animate being, from humans to beasts. In the provided examples, it refers to 'living creatures' or 'animals'.

Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Neuter

Strong’s number: G2226 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:119, 3:10, 4:29, 12:11

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 20:10

Codex Sinaiticus

• 4 Maccabees — 14:18
• Wisdom — 7:20, 11:15, 13:10, 15:19, 17:18, 19:10, 19:21
• Habakkuk — 3:2
• Hebrews — 13:11
• Revelation — 5:6, 5:11, 6:1, 6:6, 7:11, 14:3, 15:7

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 25:224, 26:239, 26:249, 28:261, 28:263, 14:138, 23:192, 30:213, 34:240
• Book Two — 14:138, 23:192, 30:213, 34:240

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 1:41, 3:96
• Book 2 — 14:296
• Book 3 — 1:1, 6:113, 6:126, 9:230, 11:259
• Book 4 — 8:228, 8:291
• Book 8 — 2:44, 3:87, 4:111
• Book 12 — 3:146
• Book 13 — 3:66, 3:70
• Book 17 — 6:151

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Three — 8:30, 8:31
• Book Four — 3:50, 5:22
• Book Six — 3:21
• Book Seven — 5:41, 8:29

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 24:1, 55:1
• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:12
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 107:2

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 12:65

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 1:21
• 4 Maccabees — 14:18
• Odes — 6:2
• Wisdom — 7:20, 11:15, 13:10, 15:19, 17:19, 19:10, 19:21
• Ezekiel — 1:5, 1:13, 1:15, 1:22, 3:13, 47:9
• Habakkuk — 3:2

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Hebrews — 13:11
• Revelation — 5:6, 5:11, 6:1, 6:6, 7:11, 14:3, 15:7

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΖΩΟΝ.

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.

• ΖΩΑ — living creatures, animals, beasts
• ΖΩΟΙΣ — to living beings, to animals, to creatures, to beasts
• ΖΩΟΝ — living thing, animal, beast, a living thing, an animal, a beast
• ΖΩΟΥ — of an animal, of a living thing, of a creature
• ΖΩΩ — of living beings, of animals, of beasts
• ΩΩΝ — of living creatures, of animals, of beasts

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