ΗΡΑΚΛΕΑ, ηρακλεα
ĒRAKLEA, ēraklea
Sounds Like: heh-rah-KLEH-ah
Translations: Heracles, Hercules
From the root: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: This is the name of the famous mythical Greek hero, known for his incredible strength and numerous adventures. In ancient Greek literature, he is often depicted as a demigod, son of Zeus and Alcmene. The form 'ΗΡΑΚΛΕΑ' is used when Heracles is the direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2265 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
- First Apology of Justin Martyr — 21:1, 54:1
- Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:11
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 69:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ.
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.
- ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙ — (to) Heracles, (to) Hercules
- ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΟΣ — Heraclean, of Heracles, pertaining to Heracles
- ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΟΥΣ — Heraclean, of Heracles, pertaining to Heracles
- ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΣ — of Heracles, to Heracles, Heracles
- ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ — of Heracles
- ΗΡΑΚΛΕΣ — Heracles, Hercules
- ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΝ — Herakleon, Heracleon
- ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ — Heracles, Hercules
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