ΚΗΛΙΔΩΝἨ, κηλιδωνἠ
KĒLIDŌNĒ, kēlidōnē
Sounds Like: kay-lee-DOHN
Translations: stain, spot, blemish, a stain, a spot, a blemish
From the root: ΚΗΛΙΔΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a stain, spot, or blemish. It is used to describe something that mars or defiles. The final character '̓' is a coronis, indicating an elision. This means the word was originally 'ΚΗΛΙΔΩΝΗ' but the final vowel was dropped because the next word started with a vowel. It is a compound word, formed from 'ΚΗΛΙΣ' (stain) and '-ΔΩΝΗ' (a suffix indicating a place or condition).
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2799 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 1:48
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΗΛΙΔΩΝ.
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.
- ΚΗΛΙΔΩΝ — spot, stain, blemish, a spot, a stain, a blemish
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