ΚΥΝΑΣ, κυνας
KYNAS, kynas
Sounds Like: KOO-nas
Translations: dogs
From the root: ΚΥΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a dog, a common domestic animal. In ancient Greek, 'dog' could be used literally for the animal, but also metaphorically to describe people, often in a negative sense, implying shamelessness, impudence, or a lack of moral restraint. It can also refer to scavengers or those who are unclean.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G2965 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 89:43
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Philippians — 3:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΥΩΝ.
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.
- ΚΥΝ — dog, a dog, (of) a dog, (to) a dog
- ΚΥΝΑ — dog, a dog
- ΚΥΝΑΝ — dog, a dog
- ΚΥΝΑΡΙΑ — little dogs, puppies, a little dog, a puppy
- ΚΥΝΑΡΙΟΝ — little dog, a little dog, puppy, a puppy
- ΚΥΝΕΣ — dogs
- ΚΥΝΙ — (to) a dog, (to) the dog
- ΚΥΝΟΣ — of a dog, of dog
- ΚΥΝΩΝ — of dogs, dogs
- ΚΥΣΙΝ — dogs, a dog
- ΚΥΩΝ — dog, a dog
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