2001 Translation

ĒMETERA, ēmetera

Sounds Like: hay-MEH-teh-rah

Translations: our, ours

From the root: ΗΜΕΤΕΡΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word is a possessive adjective meaning 'our' or 'ours'. It indicates possession by the first person plural (we). It functions similarly to the English word 'our', modifying a noun to show that something belongs to 'us'. For example, 'our house' or 'our land'.

Inflection: Singular, Feminine, Nominative, Genitive or Dative

Strong’s number: G2251 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 12:21

Codex Sinaiticus

• Esther — 8:12b
• 4 Maccabees — 6:28
• Romans — 15:4
• 1 John — 1:3

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans — 5:1

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:174

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 6:151
• Book 3 — 7:166, 8:217
• Book 8 — 6:159
• Book 11 — 5:123, 6:273
• Book 12 — 3:152
• Book 13 — 2:52, 7:89
• Book 14 — 10:192, 10:242
• Book 16 — 2:41
• Book 19 — 4:243, 5:282

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Six — 1:39, 1:40

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:10, 0:14
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 2:6, 79:2

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 9:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Ezra (Alpha) — 8:10
• Esther — 8:12
• 3 Maccabees — 2:14
• 4 Maccabees — 6:28

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• 1 John — 1:3

From the same root

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

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.

• ἨΜΕΤΡΙΟΝ — our, ours
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΑΙΣ — our, to our, for our
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΑΝ — our, our own
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΑΣ — of our, of ours
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΟΙ — our, ours, our own, of us
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΟΙΣ — our, our own, our people, our things
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΟΝ — our, ours, our own
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΟΣ — our, ours, our own
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΟΥ — of our, of ours
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΟΥΣ — our, ours
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΩ — our, of us, our own, to our, for our
• ΗΜΕΤΕΡΩΝ — (of) our, (of) ours
• ΤΗΣΗΜΕΤΕΡΑΣ — of our, of our own, of our property, of our people

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