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Name of God’s Son

ΚΗΡΥΚΕΣ, κηρυκες

KĒRYKES, kērykes

Sounds Like: KAY-roo-kes

Translations: heralds, preachers, proclaimers

From the root: ΚΗΡΥΞ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to those who make a public proclamation or announcement. It is used to describe an official messenger, a public crier, or someone who preaches or proclaims a message, especially a divine one. It emphasizes the act of publicly declaring something.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G2783 (Lookup on BibleHub)


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Josephus' The Jewish War

From the same root

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

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.

  • ΚΗΡΥΚ — herald, a herald, preacher, a preacher, proclaimer, a proclaimer
  • ΚΗΡΥΚΑ — herald, a herald, preacher, a preacher, proclaimer, a proclaimer
  • ΚΗΡΥΚΑΣ — herald, a herald, preacher, a preacher, proclaimer, a proclaimer
  • ΚΗΡΥΚΟΣ — of a herald, of a preacher, of an announcer, of a proclaimer
  • ΚΗΡΥΚΩΝ — of heralds, of preachers, of proclaimers
  • ΚΗΡΥΞ — herald, preacher, a herald, a preacher
  • ΚΗΡΥΞʼ — herald, preacher, proclaimer, a herald, a preacher, a proclaimer
  • ΤΕΚΗΡΥΞ — herald, a herald, preacher, a preacher, proclaimer, a proclaimer

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