ΚΙΟΝΩΝ, κιονων
KIONŌN, kionōn
Sounds Like: kee-OH-nohn
Translations: of pillars, of columns
From the root: ΚΙΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a pillar or column, a tall, cylindrical support structure, often made of stone, used in architecture to hold up a roof or other part of a building. It is a noun and is used here in the genitive plural, indicating possession or origin, similar to saying 'belonging to pillars' or 'made of columns'.
Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2947 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 8:39
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Judges — 16:25
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΙΩΝ.
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.
- ΚΙΟΝ — pillar, a pillar, column, a column
- ΚΙΟΝΑ — pillar, a pillar, column, a column
- ΚΙΟΝΑΣ — pillars, columns
- ΚΙΟΝΕΣ — columns, pillars, a column, a pillar
- ΚΙΟΝΙΣΚΟΙ — small pillars, little columns, miniature columns
- ΚΙΟΝΙΣΚΩΝ — of small columns, of little pillars
- ΚΙΟΝΟΣ — of a pillar, of a column
- ΚΙΟΣΙ — to pillars, for pillars, to columns, for columns
- ΚΙΟΣΙΝ — to pillars, to columns
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