ΘΗΡΙΟΙΣ, θηριοις
THĒRIOIS, thēriois
Sounds Like: thay-REE-oys
Translations: to beasts, to wild animals, to animals, to creatures
From the root: ΘΗΡΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to wild animals or beasts, often with a connotation of ferocity or danger. It can also refer more generally to any living creature. In the provided examples, it is used in the context of animals of the field or those that consume flesh.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G2342 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 7:5
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 8:6
Codex Sinaiticus
- Esther — 8:12x
- Psalms — 67:31, 73:19, 78:2
- Job — 41:17
- Wisdom — 12:9
- Sirach — 12:13
- Isaiah — 18:6
- Jeremiah — 7:33, 16:4, 19:7, 41:20
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 7:7
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 1:30, 2:20, 9:2, 9:10
- Leviticus — 11:27, 25:7
- Deuteronomy — 28:26
- 1 Samuel — 17:46
- Esther — 8:12
- 2 Maccabees — 9:15
- 3 Maccabees — 5:47, 6:16
- Psalms — 67:31, 73:19, 78:2
- Job — 41:16
- Wisdom — 12:9
- Sirach — 12:13
- Isaiah — 18:6
- Jeremiah — 7:33, 16:4, 19:7, 41:20
- Ezekiel — 29:5, 33:27, 34:5, 34:8, 39:4
- Hosea — 4:3
- Enoch — 7:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΗΡΙΟΝ.
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.
- ΗΡΙΟΙΣ — wild beasts, animals, beasts
- ΘΕΡΙΑ — beasts, wild animals, animals
- ΘΗΡΙ — beast, a beast, wild animal, a wild animal, (of) beasts, (of) wild animals
- ΘΗΡΙΑ — beasts, wild animals, animals
- ΘΗΡΙΝ — beast, a beast, wild animal, a wild animal
- ΘΗΡΙΟ — beast, wild animal, wild beast, a beast, an animal
- ΘΗΡΙΟΝ — beast, wild animal, a beast, a wild animal
- ΘΗΡΙΟΥ — of a wild beast, of a beast, of an animal, of a creature
- ΘΗΡΙΩ — to a wild animal, to a beast, for a wild animal, for a beast
- ΘΗΡΙΩΔΩΣ — savagely, fiercely, like a wild beast, brutally
- ΘΗΡΙΩΝ — of beasts, of wild animals, of animals
- ΤΗΡΙΟΥ — of a wild beast, of a beast, of an animal
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