2001 Translation

ĒTHOS, ēthos

Sounds Like: AY-thos

Translations: custom, habit, character, a custom, a habit, a character

From the root: ΗΘΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a custom, habit, or characteristic way of acting or thinking. It can describe an individual's moral character or the established practices and traditions of a community. It is often used to denote the settled disposition or moral nature of a person.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G2239 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:290

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 1:2

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 6 — 4:45
• Book 9 — 2:25
• Book 14 — 12:308
• Book 19 — 7:329

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 7:5, 25:2, 29:13
• Book Two — 5:11, 8:22, 8:50
• Book Four — 2:2
• Book Six — 3:14, 6:41

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 3:1, 10:1

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 76:430

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 4 Maccabees — 2:7
• Sirach — 20:26

From the same root

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

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.

• ἨΘΕΙ — of custom, of habit, of character, of disposition, of nature, of moral character
• ἨΘΕΣΙΝ — customs, habits, character, dispositions, morals
• ἨΘΟΥΣ — of character, of custom, of habit, of disposition, of nature
• ΗΘΕΙ — to character, to custom, to habit, to disposition
• ΗΘΗ — customs, habits, morals, character
• ΗΘΟΣ — custom, habit, usage, character, a custom, a habit
• ΗΘΩΝ — of customs, of habits, of characters, of moral natures

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